AI Designed Phono Pre-Amp?

Hi Folks,

I engaged an an AI online to see if I could get it ti design a Phone preamp. It then walked me through this layout on KiCad. Can somebody tell me if this looks like it would work? I'm pretty amaized. This is the left channel.

Tim

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The problem is that AI has no experience, and it is just a simulator. Then there is layout on the PCB. So what it spits out is complete guess work without experience or intelligence.

Is it good? I wouldn't design one that way, but you never know until you actually build it.

You didn't mention what your expectations are for performance, or what the expected performance is from that circuit. If you punch it into a simulator, you will get extremely optimistic results. Was low cost, minimal parts of the criterion?
 
On the positive side, it should be pretty quiet.
Certainly it will be devoid of any signal to disturb the silence.

And there's no need for a second channel, since both would have the same output. Zero.
I think it is safe to say that this circuit is unprecedented, and unlike any prior efforts by mere humans,
who could never have achieved such levels of performance. A doff of the hat to our new AI overlords.
 
You see? Mere humans are unable to comprehend the magnificent sophistication of the AI circuitry.
I for one am retiring from EE and will instead grow potatoes in the back yard.
I hope that AI can tell me how to do that with the same expertise as it designs phono preamps.
 
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Not that it mattered.

See my point on using AI?

The problem with AI is that it takes everything in as information without any regard for what is correct, wrong or reasonable. This applies to all AI right now. You have to give it limits and limit where it gets information from in order for it to even begin to guide you. It doesn't think.
 
You see? Mere humans are unable to comprehend the magnificent sophistication of the AI circuitry.
I for one am retiring from EE and will instead grow potatoes in the back yard.
I hope that AI can tell me how to do that with the same expertise as it designs phono preamps.
Oh, I'm sure it can. Just beware of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
 
Allen : Not sure what you mean.

Re post 11 - in other words : first entry is of the quality of "somebody told me his friend says how his uncle told him Trump thinks about construction of a phono stage".
Actual AI has not yet been achieved. Computers have merely became fast enough to make neural network pattern matching practical. The media and teck companies merely redefined the meaning of AI to fit with what they have.
 
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