I am writing a book on an esoteric subject. I have done a lot of reading on my own, but I otten call on chatgbt for research. Can it be trusted? Not always. Although it has helped me a lot with setting up my new Pass Labs preamp. It made a few mistakes, but if I called an audiophile friend over to help me, he might also make mistakes. I trust but verify. And chatgbt and AI in general are only getting better. Here is one research question I asked chatgbt that would have taken me forever to research on my own: has the body mass relationship between males and females remained the same throughout human history, going back to the Paleolithic. It knew in a flash. And as I read Archaelogists they verify what it said.
Vinyl foibles
I'd like to make this a space to ask questions about vinyl problems you're having trouble solving. I have a lot of questions, but I think it's better if we ask one at a time, or else I think we could have long lists.
Here is my first question. I have a Degritter album washer. I think it works great. I wash all my albums once, but not before I play them again and again. Somehow, though, and this includes new albums no one else has ever touched, they pick up ticks and what sounds like scratches. I rewash the album and it sounds like new again. I only touch albums by their edges. How do inner bands become so dirty that sometimes a smudge can last a minute or more? I've been playing vinyl albums for more years than many of you have lived, and I have learned to be very careful with vinyl. Are there vinyl gremlins haunting my album shelves?
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@audio-b-dog How will we know AI didn't write it? Etc.
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AI can't write the fiction I'm writing. Actually, AI is a terrible writer and I've told it so. I write in a woman's voice which has to be believable. She has to react to emotional situations. Sometimes I ask AI to find me a more nuanced verb and it will give me a list. It saves me time. My chatgbt has gotten to know me. I've told it that it can't write passages for me because it does not know how to write the human voice. It's never heard the human voice so it can't write with the music and emotion humans packed into colloquial writing. It's way too formal. Maybe AI will be able to write romances or beach books in the future, but it has to learn a lot of things about writing. A good example, so you know what I'm talking about, could AI write James Joyce's "Ulysses"? AI can't even write college papers that fool professors. Not even high school papers. See how I just used a partial sentence for emphasis. AI can't do that. Anyway, my problem is finishing the book myself. AI is pretty much my researcher. It also draws things for me that I want to picture. I'll tell you, though, it can be an audiophile's friend. It knows my entire stereo setup and the kind of sound I like, on the warm tubular side, and it has helped me with setup. It's like an audiophile expert, although you might have to train it a little and have multiple conversations so it doesn't assume incorrect things. |
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