Is AI going to kill Hifi?

Velvet Sunset - AI Band - Artificial Bands are the way forward.

Hologram Entertainment is already filling Stadiums

Virtual Debauchery as Bans Gossip is not too stimulating.

Popularity means recordings to ne made of AI Bands, that will become a Media to be replayed on an Audio System which is to be a guaranteed outcome.   

What I’ve seen output by coding AI’s - beyond toy apps, simple scripts, and well defined patterns that have already been solved 1 million times over - has been absolutely awful. It still sucks at "hard" engineering, and anything "new". But that’s true of most human coders too. For now it’s good for some lol’s. I don’t find it personally useful in a menaningful capacity, and it’s not replacing me in the near future. But to be honest - if AI does get a lot better, and encoraches upon the work I actually want to be doing, then I’ll be pissed. I love what I do. But I don’t see that as a foregone conclusion, yet. 

Anyways, working class like me (even white collar) was getting priced out of hifi even before any jobs were lost to AI. I’m done - anything I buy from here on out will be used market, and that will be sparse. Crazy times :( 

AI can be a wonderful tool that can be used in so many applications.... 

In the hands of evil doers and idiots AI is coming of our lunch. Henny Penny may finally be right.

It took many years for the "Wide World Web" to become a reality when it was suggested to be at hand for the latter part of the 90's and early 2000's. While e-commerce did close a lot of brick & mortal stores, it really was the phone that harmed our collective society the most.

Facebook and social media was supposed to bring people together and it did for a few years. Now, not so much. Evil doers realize they can manipulate the useful idiots - even though TV and Radio was doing a good job of it before the phone changed people's habits and beliefs.

Bill Gates stated that he erroneously believed that the infrastructure of cabling and routing of data would quickly come to fruition, but it took far longer than he originally professed it would. He also predicted that the internet would be able to fend off misinformation. Oops.

The lapse of a lengthy time for technology to come to fruition would seem to put us in a similar situation now. The power is not even in place to support the most consequential mechanisms of A.I. - deep learning & expert systems, etc. Gonna need a bigger power grid...

Likely A.I. will end up being rolled out at a slower pace than advertised as there are a number of sticking points that come into play with these massive energy sucking systems that will impart havoc on communities, local politics and laws. 

One thing is for certain..Wall Street is betting big on it. But they will be hamstrung if the economy goes south for awhile, so none of it may be as imminent as we may expect.