Please do not link to headphonesty site

[Mnyb]

In order for AI to get better the data it uses needs to get better, or it needs to get better at sorting fact from fiction.

In my field secrecy and red herrings are inevitable and I am really not sure if AI will ever be much use in it, since the red herrings are usually re-enforcing misinformation (which is why we use it with some success).

Also some quite well known people in the field have not yet had enough experience to know which is which. And nobody is going to tell them for free and if you do (I had a workshop when I retired) most of the young inexperienced guys didn't believe my discoveries from 40 years experience because "they hadn't read that in a magazine)...

HiFi is full of confident assertions about cables and LPs, I would be intrigued to know if AI actually separate fact from fiction (though in both those cases it is feasible)

It does not , it regurgitates all the nonsense.

You have to prompt the AI with good prompts and be specific and concise. You really get what you ask for whether you know it or not .

Ask for the effective mass of such and such tone arm, it then trawls data for you . Don’t ask which pickup sounds the best , then it compiles popular opinion among audiophiles…

 

[respice finem]

In order for AI to get better the data it uses needs to get better, or it needs to get better at sorting fact from fiction.

But how, considering, its makers, the humans, are often not particularly good at sorting facts from fiction either?
Creating a "100% curated" AI might be possible, but it would be exactly as good or bad as the curators themselves.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

 

[Mr. Swordfish]

Thank you Amir, that website is not worthy of ASR. They show up on my FB page and I can't stand it.

Lot's of complaints in this thread re: unwanted crap on facebook.

At the risk of going off-topic here, I'd suggest installing F. B. Purity as a browser extension. It removes as much crap as you tell it to via the settings. When I go to facebook, all I see are the posts from my facebook friends and the groups I subscribe to. None of the AI crap.

F.B. Purity - Clean Up + Customize Facebook

F.B. Purity is a browser extension / addon that customizes and cleans up facebook from all the application spam and other extraneous information

www.fbpurity.com

 

[Thighsofsteel]

FB purity is great for the desktop but doesn’t work on Tablet browsers.

 

[kemmler3D]

You really get what you ask for whether you know it or not .

You get something that closely approximates what you ask for, the problem is (as you allude to) if you don't already know the answer, you have no way of knowing if the AI is right or not. It's not much better than going with the first answer that sounds good to you on a random forum.

 

[respice finem]

You get something that closely approximates what you ask for, the problem is (as you allude to) if you don't already know the answer, you have no way of knowing if the AI is right or not. It's not much better than going with the first answer that sounds good to you on a random forum.

But, if you really already know the answer, why ask AI for it? (except for testing)

 

[kemmler3D]

But, if you really already know the answer, why ask AI for it? (except for testing)

Yeah well, this is why I think AI is often only suitable for preliminary research, and can be worse than useless for actually answering questions.

Ask AI "where can I learn about X" is probably fine.

But if you don't already know the answer, and it gives you the wrong answer about "X", then you're dumber than when you started.

As Mark Twain said, “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

 

[respice finem]

Maybe we should start collecting (oldish) printed books, just in case

 

[Keith_W]

@Sir Sanders Zingmore deserves credit for this one.

This joke was posted on another audio forum.

Turns out that Headphone Sty stole someone else's joke without credit.

 

[Andysu]

peeped at it , looks disgustingly vile crawling in a ai cesspool of clickbait