Are AI Equipment Reviews on the Horizon?

Researchers have created an AI program that generates reviews of wines and beers that are indistinguishable from human written reviews.  Here's a link to the story on the Scientific American website.  The program does not taste the beverage it just writes a review.

Here's a key paragraph from the article:

Theoretically, the algorithm could have produced reviews about anything. A couple of key features made beer and wine particularly interesting to the researchers, though. For one thing, “it was just a very unique data set,” says computer engineer Keith Carlson of Dartmouth College, who co-developed the algorithm used in the study. Wine and beer reviews also make a great template for AI-generated text, he explains, because their descriptions contain a lot of specific variables, such as growing region, grape or wheat variety, fermentation style and year of production. Also, these reviews tend to rely on a limited vocabulary. “People talk about wine in the same way, using the same set of words,” Carlson says. For example, connoisseurs might routinely toss around adjectives such as “oaky,” “floral” or “dry.”

Obviously, this program with a few changes could generated audio equipment reviews.  Will audiophiles even notice?

Put on your sunglasses, the future really is that bright!