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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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'Hi-fi is already dead'? That's quite the pronouncement; I hadn't realized. Guess I better get rid of my dead gear. 

goodlistening64
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AI Is gonna change the world! Just wait until tomorrow morning! Maybe next year or maybe the year after next, but It is coming and will appear when you have least expected!! Bam! Everything will be new and all that is old will be obsolete. Selling your gear will be futile. 

AI music generating sites are nothing new. Yamaha digital pianos, Pro Tools, Autotune, Melodyne, and a host of other tools have provided a similar capability for many years. Don't think for a minute that you too can be a rock star just by sitting on your couch pressing buttons. Absurd!

To suggest that AI will rule popular music culture is even more of a stretch. I guess many folks here are buying into the hype. If you envision a hologram created to look like a singer and the song is catchy then, yeah, we will have successfully resurrected Milli Vanilli. As if we were all clamoring for their return!! Girl you know it's true!

Do I think that AI could produce a hit song? Sure. It will be a novel moment and the song will be catchy. Real catchy. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down..

Not sure how anyone can believe that AI will replace all the talented artists we have and subsequently dominate the billboard 100? Does anyone want to go see AI live in concert at the Met? There will be three AI bands there!! Let's just call them the Manheim Steam Rollers, Yanni Longhair, and Craftwork. Personally, I can't wait to see what the computer comes up with next!! The best part will be the hologram performers..who look so real!! 

And if I read the room correctly, once AI has taken over our music culture and starts touring relentlessly, it will visit your home - invitation only! - and replace your sound system! Of course, it will all be catered to what you ask of it, and absolutely free! (At the expense of your energy and water bills). 

jon_5912
611 posts
 

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.  

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