Is AI taking over audio gear research?


an audio dealer recommends talking to AI.  

It's getting better and better and better. I think ai deep analysis of all things audio is impressive to the nth degree.  Of course eventually you're gonna have to listen to something before making a purchase decision.

a lot depends on Web available source data and it's difficult to get a sense as to how extensive available material is being reviewed by AI, clearly it's vast.  The truly impressive aspects are continuing to improve inference capabilities. I am far from an expert in audio stuff but I do recognize some really impressive comments being made by AI. I find myself asking lots of questions about certain gear and asking for comparisons to other gear. I have a running thread that's probably the length of the Bible at this point and that's the better way to do it rather than doing a bunch of individual threads although now ChatGPT is accessing all the threads so it may not matter much but it's still better to keep it all within one extended thread.  I approach things with healthy skepticism.

ai takes initiative. It anticipate things I have not thought of. I am using ChatGPT pro. I think free Gemini AI sucks and make lots of errors.

I don't type into ChatGPT I dictate everything and that makes it more effective. I can use extended thoughts and questions and basically compose several sentences of content before I submit.  It can handle lots of twisted info. 

I thought I'd share all this. 

 

 

emergingsoul

Who's the dealer?   I'll most definitely avoid him !!!    A Hegel amp and Wharfdale Lintons would not be my first choice in a $6k system......  not that are bad but it's either those or KEF LS50 that always seem to pop up.  

All good stuff , just some unlikely pairings.  

I think ai deep analysis of all things audio is impressive to the nth degree

...it's difficult to get a sense as to how extensive available material is being reviewed by AI, clearly it's vast.

The truly impressive aspects are continuing to improve inference capabilities.

I am far from an expert in audio stuff but I do recognize some really impressive comments being made by AI.

I approach things with healthy skepticism.

ai takes initiative. It anticipate things I have not thought of.

Where's Waldo...and...what thought doesn't comport with the others (Hint: It's the only one with any real relevance & it's emboldened).

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." — Edgar Allen Poe

Poe's commentary was pertinent in 1845 and continually thereafter; but with the advent of LLM's, it is exponentially more pertinent to view the inflow of ANY and ALL information (from ALL sources -- family, friends, entertainment, so called news and especially AI's) as Poe advised! 

That is, to navigate a world 100% full of purposeful and non-purposeful misinformation/disinformation, biases, agendas, illusions and human error: 

Believe Everything...Trust Nothing!   

 

 

I've toyed around with it, but you have to be careful as a number of times the responses haven't had the totally correct information regarding the component makeup and/or functionality of specific equipment

AI is regurgitating all the slop online.  It's impossible to understand WHY AI is recommending a product vs. say, asking online in a forum.  It's also easy to game by posting your own slop on Reddit and waiting for the engines to run through and read it. 

The funny thing for me is reading so many posts from A'goners about what AI said, taken at mostly face value as if AI could hear a thing when it can't.