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Claire Nicholls

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
281 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Book Show
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I guess we risk being helped into redundancy.

The Book Show
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Yeah, look, it's five minutes into the future, really.

The Book Show
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You know, we're, yeah, it's sort of...

The Book Show
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AI has started to replace Jobs just faster than it has now.

The Book Show
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So Jobs is starting to be replaced.

The Book Show
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You know, they're still trying it out.

The Book Show
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There's a scene where he has family therapy with his parents and an AI kind of analyst chatbot named Froido.

The Book Show
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Yeah, there's self-driving cars on the road.

The Book Show
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So it's really just five minutes from now.

The Book Show
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No, no, it's not that.

The Book Show
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I don't know if I'm that concerned.

The Book Show
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I definitely... There are sort of taboos at the moment about people using AI to write books.

The Book Show
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And, you know, there was just a big case recently about a novel that got pulled because they found AI.

The Book Show
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But, I mean, knowing what I know about people, I think these taboos are going to last about five minutes.

The Book Show
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I mean, nobody...

The Book Show
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Nobody batted an eye when just about every musician lost their livelihood through selling sort of CDs when, you know, when first Napster people were pirating music and then they just sort of gave in to Spotify.

The Book Show
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Similarly, I just don't think anybody's going to care too much about human authors.

The Book Show
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I mean, obviously there's the idea at the moment is that anybody could just sort of type something in and have

The Book Show
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have AI do it for them.

The Book Show
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But of course, you have to have some talent there to begin with because, you know, a million multiplied by zero is just still zero.