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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
zx10
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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.

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pindac
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The Following is made known by myself in other Threads, it is Fact when the CO2 is the Calculation.

The rest is an assessment of Info disseminated in many places as Warning to others, forums are Insular. It takes time for such Info to become common place and believed. 

" A Typical Search using a Support such as Google means the search undertaken by an individual has used 0.0003 KWh - 0.2g CO2 Emission.  

A Typical Search using a Support such as Chat CBT means the search undertaken by an individual has used 0.0029 KWh - 68g CO2 Emission. 

All of that stupidly squandered energy for an Info Supply that is according to experts, at this stage of development extremely inaccurate and generalised only, and users are just Guinea Pigs for the Industry. 

Ask Me - I'll give you equivalent BS to rave about. "    

devinplombier
850 posts
 

@pindac 

You make a good point, however history has a way of repeating itself.

Early computers were the size of a warehouse and needed their own electrical substation, whereas today your smartphone runs 16 or 18 hours on a tiny charge, it fits in your pocket, and yet it packs 10x more computing power.

There is little doubt that that 68g of CO2 chatGPT search you speak of will only emit .000068g in 10 or 20 years.

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pindac
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Early Computers were not immediately accessible by Billions of Individuals expressing curiosity and each 3 x sessions of expressing curiosity to see very inaccurate information is equivalent to a 1 Mile Car Journey in a Mid Sized CC Engine Vehicle.

I don't know the comparison, but curiosity users of AI at present can be generating the equivalent of a 1 Billion Mile Journey per week, or 2600 Journeys to the Moon weekly.

Totally Ludicrous and Totally Unnecessary

Accessing it should come with the deterrent being a cost that is the Largest Stealth Tax ever levied.

emergingsoul
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If it means we’re gonna be burning more coal then I am all for it.  If it means we’re going to destroy wilderness to build more of these data centers that basically means clearcutting lots of Forest then I am all for it. If it means we can be lazier when we have questions that otherwise they’re more difficult to get good answers for then I am all for it.

If it means I enjoy speaking to a chat bot more than my wife I am all for it and I’m not even married.

 

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