If AI can learn to do just about anything humans can do it will mean the cost of HiFi will drop through the floor just like everything else that depends on human labor. Your 100K system is gonna be $500. Then all the people who only value it because it's something most can't have will be mad. We'll see, I expect it will continue to take longer than expected but I'm not planning to buy any expensive stereo stuff anytime soon.
Is AI going to kill Hifi?
I work in the tech as a software dev which helps in affording my crazy Hifi hobby. But with in just a year, I have stopped coding and now AI does most of the coding. There are these systems called agentic AI that automates to a point where you don't really need much human interaction at all.
It's getting pretty crazy. For the most part, anything a human does on the computer AI can do. And let me tell you... it's not a situation where it creates new jobs in place of old ones lost. Google has products for corporations that basically takes care of any need for anything. Ya, you might need a handful of people but not much more to be honest.
I wonder, what is this going to do to the Hifi market? If AI eliminates all these white colored jobs, how will these Hifi shops and brands make it?