Is AI going to kill Hifi?


I work in the tech as a software dev which helps in affording my crazy Hifi hobby. But with in just a year, I have stopped coding and now AI does most of the coding. There are these systems called agentic AI that automates to a point where you don't really need much human interaction at all. 

It's getting pretty crazy. For the most part, anything a human does on the computer AI can do. And let me tell you... it's not a situation where it creates new jobs in place of old ones lost. Google has products for corporations that basically takes care of any need for anything. Ya, you might need a handful of people but not much more to be honest. 

I wonder, what is this going to do to the Hifi market? If AI eliminates all these white colored jobs, how will these Hifi shops and brands make it? 

dman777

I was surprised to see a number of stories (4) this AM on A.I. companies sinking money into data centers in Pennsylvania. Here are the article titles (sorry about the sizing).

At least $50 billion is going into A.I. in Pennsylvania alone. 

  1. AI cloud computing firm announces plans for $6B data center in Lancaster County

  2. Google to buy $3B worth of electricity for data centers from Holtwood, Safe Harbor hydroelectric plants

  3. Three Mile Island, the site of a major nuclear accident in 1979, is being revived to power Microsoft's AI data centers
  4. Blackstone to invest $25 billion in Pennsylvania data centers and natural gas plants, COO says

Personally I would really, really, really like to see more of the REAL thing in these disappointing/stain on humanity times.

 

DeKay

I don't like anything about this AI. To me it seems sinister somehow. Now I did watch a lot of science fiction films as a kid.