Can AI Build a speaker?


What Say You?

With retirement looming, I might be brave enough to give it an AI assisted go. 

mapman

My first down the rabbit hole question would be how to determine the crossover frequency? If you gave the AI your cabinet dimensions or baffle dimensions and the drivers you were using, could spit out a list of crossover components?

I assume you mean design a speaker system. I am sure it can help a lot. It is also a great way to learn how to use AI. Especially if you have created a lot of personal content about music and train on that as well as using a really large LLM. It would be fun, good reason to start a discourse about design tradeoffs, and preferences. Sounds like fun. 

Then you could get it to make drawings and pictures of them, and schematics on how to build them. Sounds like a great project. If nothing else from what you will learn about how to use AI and its current limitations. 

You may also learn about the alignment problem, see if they sound like what you had in mind. (joke for those into AI).

If it is really "smart" one should be able to specify the woofer and tweeter and AI should:

Search the world wide web to find all the data it can on those components,

Design the optimal cabinet for those components to a set of specs (e.g., flat response, and/or 6 cu ft, and/or etc,),

Select the optimal crossover point and slope for the selected components,

Design the circuit accordingly including enhancements to make the components work better together.

For example, if the woofer shows a dip just below the crossover frequency, AI should be "smart enough" to enhance the circuit by adjusting the values of the components to create a peak to counteract the dip.

I don't see any benifit to using AI. 

You can get the crossover designed by Parts Express or Midisound or software programs.

 "Use soldering to secure connections."

Agreed but... It doesn't tell you how easy it is to fry your drivers by not using a heat sink when soldering.

Too much fluff

Beyond helping a novice like me better understand how to do this right, I expect AI should be a boon already at this point for even the best and most experienced designers to use anywhere from actual design to as a reference to help refine and validate existing designs.  

That should bubble up to buyers in terms of more higher quality designs for less assuming makes the job faster and more reliable, a safe bet when good engineering and design is already at play. 

Sadly eventually jobs could be at risk once AI is able to do it all from design through implementation and testing, much like other jobs that employ SMEs (subject matter experts).  AI should definitely also help grow SMEs able to use it effectively as a tool with less knowledge needed at the onset.  Interesting stuff!  

 

The fear is of course it will be abused like a weapon for ill intent as well as used for constructive purposes, so important to be careful about that.  No regulation at all is probably not a good thing.