Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh says AI has made us dumbed down machines

BBCIrvine Welsh is pointing up to the second floor of a grey stone building in Leith, the port district of Edinburgh. As he gets ready to publish a sequel to his 1993 cult novel Trainspotting, the author is showing me the window of the room, with its view over a local park, where he wrote that first book, which later became a hit film starring Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller.The son of a Leith docker and a…