Claire Nicholls

I sort of have the curse of being prescient, but by only about 30 seconds.

So for my last novel, Here Goes Nothing, I wrote about a

pandemic, but I wrote about that in like 2019.

But by the time I'd finished the book, we were already out of the pandemic.

And in the same way, I kind of wrote about a lot of this AI stuff.

In sort of when I started the novel in 2022, so it was sort of about a year before ChatGPT came out.

So it wasn't that I'd seen it.

I just sort of get, I was, you know, it was coming, you know, the AI field has been, you know, has been studied for a long time.

And I mean, I read books about AI research.

before this new kind of wave of actual AI, the only thing that's different is kind of the collapse of the time horizons.

Like I was writing about something in which people still thought it was 50 years away, five years ago.

And so I thought I was writing a book in this era, which I kind of...

sort of called pre-futurism, which is, I always, I felt that we were living, we were always living on the precipice of the future where everything seemed about to change.

Oh, like, you know, self-driving cars are going to flood the world.

There's going to be, you know, AI, all these kind of things, but it never...

actually eventuates.

But I was wrong.

It's coming really fast now.

And I feel like we're in an era not unlike, you know, I think we're going to traverse what was kind of 1870 to 1945, but we're going to do it in about 10 years, you know, where the cities all became electrified.

I think, yeah, and I think that...