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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? 

dman777
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larsman
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AI can be a wonderful tool that can be used in so many applications.... 

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wsrrsw
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In the hands of evil doers and idiots AI is coming of our lunch. Henny Penny may finally be right.

goodlistening64
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It took many years for the "Wide World Web" to become a reality when it was suggested to be at hand for the latter part of the 90's and early 2000's. While e-commerce did close a lot of brick & mortal stores, it really was the phone that harmed our collective society the most.

Facebook and social media was supposed to bring people together and it did for a few years. Now, not so much. Evil doers realize they can manipulate the useful idiots - even though TV and Radio was doing a good job of it before the phone changed people's habits and beliefs.

Bill Gates stated that he erroneously believed that the infrastructure of cabling and routing of data would quickly come to fruition, but it took far longer than he originally professed it would. He also predicted that the internet would be able to fend off misinformation. Oops.

The lapse of a lengthy time for technology to come to fruition would seem to put us in a similar situation now. The power is not even in place to support the most consequential mechanisms of A.I. - deep learning & expert systems, etc. Gonna need a bigger power grid...

Likely A.I. will end up being rolled out at a slower pace than advertised as there are a number of sticking points that come into play with these massive energy sucking systems that will impart havoc on communities, local politics and laws. 

One thing is for certain..Wall Street is betting big on it. But they will be hamstrung if the economy goes south for awhile, so none of it may be as imminent as we may expect.

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llg98ljk
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If you want to really experience the joys of AI, call any company using it for customer service. I have on numerous occasions found myself (even though I know better) yelling into the phone and using wash out your mouth with soap language.

devinplombier
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The other day I was bored so I fed the AI a schematic and asked it to tell me all about it. It told me it was a positive / negative dual rail linear power supply, which was correct, and it went on to praise the discrete-transistor regulation stages and the substantial size of the filtering caps, and asked if I wanted it to run a simulation. I said sure, so it ran a simulation. It was pretty crude, honestly... but just give it a year.

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