I’m not sure what percentage of folks are using free version of AI vs paid services. There is a world of difference between free and paid. Exponentially. Free just touches a subject. Paid digs deep, reasons and much much more. I use paid versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Not going back to free. Makes no sense to go back to the Stone Age. May drop one at some point. You can feed it lots of variables with one request and or comments. Comes back a fair amount of info and from there continue the chat and go further into the subject. If you are on a long chat focused around one subject, and you’re ready to wrap up the chat, tell it to give you a summary in table format, produce a pdf file using color. Sums it nice and tidy. And thats using AI lightly.
Startling AI results.
Shocking might be a better word. So I asked Google AI “what is the weak link in this system: a,b,c,d?” And I listed my streamer/dac, amp, speakers, and cables. No hesitation— the weak link was my speakers. Though good, they were older and couldn’t resolve to the level of my streamer and amp.
Then I changed one word; instead of “what’” I said “which is the weak…” again no hesitation, but this time it was the streamer. The speakers were excellent and would mercilessly (their word) expose any weakness upstream.
Then “who is the weak…”. Any guesses? The cables.
I’ll remember this next time I seek medical or financial advice, lol.
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