Is AI taking over audio gear research?

@erik_squires, I agree!!

Mike

The Editor in Chief of The Absolute Sound, in an editorial several months ago, talked about how he’d written an article, and AI, without his input, regurgitated a stream of information - and none of it was what he’d said. He said, in fact, that the systems it put together were not even the ones he’d suggested.

This is a followup column on the subject.

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/from-the-editor-teach-a-man-to-fish/

I use Microsoft Copilot AI extensively but would not make a final purchase decision based only on it. Its responses are always clear and organized. Like the OP, I am amazed at the quality of the responses I usually (but not always) get.

Some in the forum may have formed negative opinions based on AI versions of 6 mths or more ago. If so, try it again. It is progressing at a similar speed as D-amps! There is a big difference in responses I get now compared to 6 mths ago.

When Copilot says something wrong, I tell it. Copilot responds with an apology, admission of "guilt" and an analysis of where it went wrong. Then it restates what it had incorrectly said in a corrected manner.  I wish some of the people around me were as forthcoming when corrected.

@erik_squires:  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. 

@fatdaddy2:  We’re going to be getting to the point where AI is the OP, AI provides most of the responses, and nobody cares.

A Big Thumbs-UP to you both!!

"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."

If this doesn’t already apply to everything we see and hear, it will soon do so! 

You can’t tell the players without a score card and you can’t tell what was stated, pictured or created by a human! 

Yet, many are taking whatever they hear and see from some source they seemingly want to believe (or need to believe) and not only believing it, wanting others to do likewise, as if "their guru", "their science" is correct.

But belief is the lazy, easy way to move though life.  Considering everything to be suspect until somehow proven otherwise, is the difficult choice.  And be mindful that there is very little that is actually proven.  We may think otherwise.  But so did the scientists, medical experts and others that came before us.  They too wanted to believe, be absolutely correct, but scientific knowledge led to new science, new concepts.  To  think that has somehow changed in our brief time on this mortal coil, is to exclude mankind’s history.   

However, that’s the way of the world, isn’t it?  Humans are seemingly wired to believe and believe we do! 

How many millions of consumer items have been sold based on “Mad Men” type marketing and how many thousands of politicians have been elected based on the desire, or the need of voters to believe? 

We must remind ourselves to do otherwise -- to keep an open mind in spite of ourselves!  Will AI change that theorem, expose it or enhance it? 

Is It Live Or Is It Memorex!?!  Who the heck knows now, or worse, who will know as time passes?  

Any bets on how long the Hollywood star structure will endure (without some sort of unionization) trying to prevent better and MUCH cheaper AI line readers from replacing human dialog emoters and regurgitators?  The same question applies to all recorded art -- art, like what we listen to?  Stage actors would seem to survive the AI onslaught longer, but again will 100% human-like androids ever be replacements, like human actors are already being replaced by 100% human-like recorded counterparts…?

@fatdaddy2 Wrote:

We're going to be getting to the point where AI is the OP, AI provides most of the responses, and nobody cares.

I agree!! @frank009 comes to mind.

Mike