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PNP Ep. 530- 100% AI Written Show+ Will AI Lower BOM?

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·May 25, 2023
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TL;DR

Host explores AI's role in pinball art, code, playtesting, and BOM reduction despite artist pushback.

Summary

Host Orbital Albert of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast discusses AI's potential impact on the pinball industry, analyzing an AI-generated podcast script about AI in pinball. He explores how AI could affect pinball art, coding, playtesting, and manufacturing costs (BOM), while expressing both optimism about cost reduction and concern about displacement of pinball artists. He argues that despite community resistance, AI adoption is inevitable and could enable lower machine prices and more marketing.

Key Claims

  • AI could streamline monotonous coding tasks in pinball, making development quicker and cheaper

    high confidence · Orbital Albert discussing coding automation, citing Mike Vinnacor's work on lighting systems

  • AI-generated art lacks the distinctive personal style of established pinball artists like Christopher Franchi and Zombie Yeti

    high confidence · Orbital Albert's analysis of AI art limitations compared to human artists

  • Stern has not raised prices on at least some recent machines, while other pinball companies have increased prices

    medium confidence · Orbital Albert praising Stern for holding pricing steady on a recent release

  • Stern has a significant production backlog, citing figures of 5,000 to 3,000 units

    medium confidence · Orbital Albert discussing Stern's capacity issues in relation to new releases like Foo Fighters

  • Current pinball customer service queries are repetitive and could be handled by chatbots for 80% of incoming emails

    medium confidence · Orbital Albert using Rush release as example of predictable complaint volume

  • AI playtesting could identify bugs in rare scenarios like six-ball multiball that human testers struggle to replicate

    medium confidence · Orbital Albert discussing limitations of manual playtesting at Stern

  • AI is already embedded in customer service at major companies like Bell Canada and retail chains

    high confidence · Orbital Albert describing personal experience with chatbot customer service

  • A price reduction of even 10% on new pinball machines would generate significant consumer demand

    low confidence · Orbital Albert speculating on hypothetical price-drop scenario

Notable Quotes

  • “Today is the worst AI will ever be. Today, right now, when I recorded this, unless you listened to it on the day of, AI's got better since I recorded this.”

    Orbital Albert @ ~40:00 — Captures the inevitability theme and accelerating AI capability

  • “So there you have it folks, a funny and informative podcast. [It's telling you it's funny, but it wasn't really that funny, am I right?]”

    Orbital Albert @ ~8:00 — Critiques AI-generated content's self-awareness failure and lack of authentic humor

  • “The fact that Stern even stayed level is like a thank you, thank you, thank you, right?”

    Orbital Albert @ ~55:00 — Indicates rarity and value of price stability in pinball market

  • “If Stern was about to come out with their next pin and they said, hey, we're dropping all the prices by even 10%, people would lose their mind.”

    Orbital Albert @ ~58:00 — Demonstrates price sensitivity and demand elasticity in collector market

  • “You're never going to be able to get that as good from AI. I hope everyone out there listening, including Franchi, Yeti... to everyone listening who does art, I don't want this to happen.”

    Orbital Albert @ ~18:00 — Balances technical analysis with ethical concern for artist displacement

  • “Put the wow back in pinball. We want to see more wow. Well, this is how we can put more wow back in the pinball machine, yet the pinball companies can continue to see that bottom line.”

    Orbital Albert @ ~63:00 — Proposes AI cost-savings could fund more mechanical/artistic features

Entities

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Signals

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    product_strategy: Stern held prices level on recent release while competitors increased prices; noted as rare and appreciated by market

    medium · I applauded them for that because all the other pinball companies, we were seeing an increase on their last pin

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    supply_chain_signal: Stern has significant production backlog (5,000 to 3,000 units mentioned) exacerbated by high-demand releases like Foo Fighters

    medium · When you come up with a machine like Foo Fighters, that just got done. You backed up five times more. You're going to have to eat twice as much prunes to get rid of that backlog

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    technology_signal: AI is already embedded in corporate customer service (Bell Canada, retail chains); pinball manufacturers could adopt similar approaches

    high · whenever I'm talking to customer service from especially Bell Canada I know it's chat GDP... with a large company like that that deals a lot with technology, probably the top 50 to 100 questions you could ask them

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    design_innovation: AI-driven automated playtesting could identify bugs in rare scenarios (six-ball multiball, wizard modes) that human testers miss

    medium · you can make a software app that harnesses AI to playtest every machine and tell you about every possible bug, including bugs that happen maybe when say you're in six ball multiball

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    community_signal: Pinball artist community likely to resist AI art generation despite potential for cost savings; distinct artistic styles valued as differentiators

    high · you're never going to be able to get that as good from AI... that's what we all love about Yeti and Franchi... it doesn't matter what theme they're giving, their own personality, their own touch

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Hey there, fellow pinball enthusiasts. Welcome to our latest podcast episode where we explore how AI might shake things up in the pinball industry. Now, you might be thinking, AI? Pinball? What do these two have in common? Well, strap in and let us tell you. First off, let's talk about pinball art. Could AI change the way we design pinball art? With AI technology becoming more advanced every day, it's entirely possible that pinball art could be generated by a machine. We might see some wild and crazy designs that would blow our minds. And speaking of machines, could AI change the way we code pinball machines? The answer is yes, it could. The use of AI technology could make it easier and quicker to code and develop pinball machines. This could mean we'll see more machines hitting the market and they'll be more affordable for everyone. Now, let's take a look at how AI could change the way we playtest pinball machines. With AI technology, developers could simulate thousands of games and get precise feedback. This would help ensure the game is balanced, fair, and most importantly, fun. We all love playing pinball, but we know it can be costly. AI, sorry, could AI help lower the cost and final price of pinball machines? Absolutely. By streamlining the manufacturing process, The Pinball Machines could be produced at a faster rate for far less money. But here's the million dollar question. Has AI helped create video games in the past? You bet. AI is already being used in games like The Last of Us 2 where it helps make the enemy AI more challenging and unpredictable. So there you have it folks, a funny and informative podcast exploring the possibilities of AI in Pinball industry. Thank you for listening and remember keep flipping those flippers! End scene. Alright Pinball Nerds, there it is. It was a short podcast. I think all my podcasts were that short. And the thing is, AI does not go off topic. So I actually used my free trial just for you guys, my free trial with AnyWord.com The pinball podcast is a tool that is used by the AI to write the pinball podcast. Now, what is missing? First of all, I told AnyWord that I wanted this pinball podcast to be funny. I don't really think it was funny. I think it tried to make one joke in there, but at the end it just said, So there you have it folks, a funny and informative podcast. So it's telling you it's funny, but it wasn't really that funny, am I right? I did like that end part though. Keep flippin' those flippers? Wow, that sounds like, you know, that sounds like, I don't know, a pinball podcaster human made that up, right? So I had no clue that, you know, I don't know if any word uses chat GPT. I know that's the main one that are being used by a lot of them. I kinda touched on this with my show. Can I restart my show? I can't do a show without it starting like that. Oh my god, I got a hair in my mouth guys. Okay, here we go. Let's restart the show. Welcome back Pinball Nerds, episode 530 of your fifth favorite pinball podcast. My name is Orbital Albert and on today's show we're going to be talking about AI. Good, bad, ugly, great for pinball, good for lowering the costs, bad for pissing off pinball artists. And let's just start right there. I'm going to break this down one paragraph by one paragraph, okay? So the first thing up here it talks about is the art. So, you know, I don't know if it's chat GDP but we'll just say any word the writer tool tells us. First off let's talk about pinball art. Could AI change the way we design pinball art? I don't think that AI is going to change the way we design it. What I think what will happen is you could see current artists who are already using You know, paint applications and drawing applications and animation applications to further help even more, right? So I don't think we're going to see the complete elimination of something like that, but I think we will see a lot more of... Like, say for instance if, and I don't foresee Christopher Franchi or Zombie Yeti doing this anytime soon, but let's say a new up-and-coming artist like, you know, back Johnny Crap, Johnny Crapp was just getting into pinball art and you know he was probably a little nervous doing Jurassic Park getting hired by Stern the largest pinball company in the world seeing the likes of zombie Eddie's art on Ghostbusters and I'm trying to think what other art was out back then you know there's some really cool stuff happening it wasn't as good as it is now but you know if Johnny Crapp had just used an AI art like an AI art program which I have used I've sat there and if you've never ever I've been to the pinball machine, who's the gentleman who has the clocks that are like melting and the see if I had chat GDP open they would know but the artist who does like the elephants on the tall dangly legs and the dolly right? If you say, could I do, uh, you know, could you do a pinball machine, um, that is the theme of Jurassic Park, the movie Jurassic Park, but could you do it in the version of, you know, uh, how Da Vinci would have drawn it or how, uh, what is his name? Anyways, you know, if you tell, told it stuff like that, like I actually did a pinball machine. I asked for a pinball machine, uh, that appeared to be so, All these,ippersabularyactions from a Main sid następ is way rip die at life, vertical upkick point of the Ishida watch very much the right truck before we move 50 this scene Fast the click The two. And of course, I know that Johnny Crap, even though he calls his own artwork crap, he wouldn't just hit the print button and go, okay, there's, you know, but it would give him ideas for maybe what direction to go. And let's be honest, if there's one thing that's not like incredible, because everything else is incredible about Jurassic Park, the shots are still probably my favorite in all pinball, tough but fair, shooting up there through the pops to get that one letter for 5.5 하 Directory linearlya Tips UH 524 time Wintertime 6yeon 6.45 anda$%5 bowMarHHH 8.27 Noah 8. Kaliann 9.38 9.28 9. Guike 9. seek 9.90 9.20 9.30 9.40 9.34 9.36 9.37 9.42 9.43 9.54 9.56 29. 30.
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    business_signal: AI could reduce bill of materials (BOM) through process automation, enabling cheaper machine production or higher margins

    medium · having a lower BOM may allow for them to spend more money on marketing and advertising... anything that artificial intelligence can do that can make the pinball machine cost less and work better

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    market_signal: Market is highly price-sensitive; even 10% price reduction would significantly increase demand across tiers

    low · If Stern was about to come out with their next pin and they said, hey, we're dropping all the prices by even 10%, people would lose their mind

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    design_philosophy: Discussion of tension between competitive depth (repetitive optimal shots) and casual player enjoyment; AI could optimize this balance

    medium · Can you do a spin and shoot the same shot over and over and over? That's not fun. Nor is it fair because someone who basically will sit there for an hour

  • ?

    content_signal: Free solo pinball podcasting is increasingly rare; most content is behind paywalls or features AI co-hosts; Poor Man's and Don's are exceptions

    medium · Don and I are the only two that you don't have to pay. Like we're the only two solo pinball podcasters left not behind a paywall... the other one is the Stern paywall with um, the Coast to Coast dude

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    sentiment_shift: Initial resistance to automation (self-checkouts) transitions to acceptance once convenience/efficiency benefits are experienced

    medium · I think I was at shoppers drug mart or so... I'm not using that I'm not using that I'm not using that I'll wait in line forever and then like [acceptance follows]

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    operational_signal: Estimated 80% of new machine customer service inquiries are repetitive (predictable bugs/questions), suitable for automation

    medium · when a new pinball machine comes out... Everybody knows the top two or three issues that people are dealing with... for probably 80% of those emails... a chat bot available on Stern

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    product_concern: AI-generated art analysis shows self-awareness failures (labeling non-funny content as funny) and lack of originality versus human artists

    high · I told AnyWord that I wanted this pinball podcast to be funny. I don't really think it was funny... So it's telling you it's funny, but it wasn't really that funny

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    31. The pinball artist get a sense and idea for the direction they might want to go and you know Johnny crap may have stole one idea from like the direction that you know It wanted to go towards zombie Eddie's art and even at this point you could go it is long again as long as the System had the past AI from zombie Eddie whether it be on a concert poster whether it be on a DVD case Whether it be on a toy label whether it be on a pinball machine if you ask any AI The AI that is specifically good with art to go a certain direction, it will do it. Now of course, the AI that you'd be asking to do this, it doesn't know where the pop bumpers are. Hopefully there are none because pop bumpers are overrated, but it doesn't know where the ramps are. It doesn't know where anything is in the pinball machine, right? So that is, you know, AI will be used in art. Now, as far as a new startup company or a boutique company using strictly just AI to create the art, I think there would Get to know its elaborations on www. damages.com and downloadiluts.com Concerning the question of who did the art work, who do you think did the art work, without telling me I would look at both of those and go well I'm pretty sure this is zombie yeti or someone attempting to copy his style. Even with Franchi, you can see Franchi's art work has a certain particular style and that's what we all love about Yeti and Franchi and that's what we love about a really good artist. It doesn't matter what theme they're giving, their own personality, their own touch, you're never going to be able to get that as good from AI. I hope everyone out there listening, including Franchi, Yeti, you know, I don't know if Zombie listens to this podcast, but to everyone listening who does art, I don't want this to happen. I'm just talking about the possible ramifications of it happening in the future. So let's move on from art because I think it could happen in art, but I think we're really far off of that happening. What is less far away, something, the first thing that popped up and the thing that you've probably dealt with AI on more than you even think, and I'm not sure down in the good old United States of America, I'm not sure if you're in America or in Europe or Australia, New Zealand, all the other awesome places that you're listening to me at here on the Pinball Nerds Podcast, but what I am sure about is that up here in Canada, whether you're dealing with like our two main, I guess, television slash internet slash cell phone companies are Bell Canada, Doi, and Alexander Graham Bell's from out here in Nova Scotia. So I got to give the shout out to Alexander Graham Bell because he sent the very first phone call ever from Out here on the east coast of Canada and if it wasn for him we all just be sending up pigeon what a pit pit pigeon carriers what are they called the the birds that fly around and they have the little notes on their necks we be sending those tweets we be tweeting each other a we could go to the real the real tweet I we be sending letters of course by carriage and by ship them by car I you know so anyways thanks alexander Graham Bell but with this particular thing whenever I'm talking to customer service from especially Bell Canada I know it's chat GDP. They have an answer probably for like the top, honestly with a large company like that that deals a lot with technology, probably the top 50 to 100 questions you could ask them. Like, how much is the new model of the Galaxy blah? You know, how much is the new Apple, Macintosh, backflip, I don't know anything about Apple. How much is the new blank? They can answer that. How much will I be charged if I go over on my minutes? They can answer that. They don't need a human, you know, trying to look for that answer and type it in.
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    They can say, you know, how long is left on my contract? How much would it cost to buy out my thing? You know, all those questions are answered. Now, from time to time, if you ask a question that the chat GDP or whatever program they're using can't answer, you will the odd time get a human come on there. And I can tell when there's a little bit of human touch. But even with the human, you can tell they're only typing the odd word. And then or maybe like one sentence back or like You can even press the button. I need to speak to a real frickin' human. You can press that while you're in chat. So chat is admitting that it's not real. So could pinball companies, especially the larger ones like Stern, who maybe isn't as great at getting back to people's questions at customer service, from what I've been told, I've never bought a new unboxed Stern, so I'm not sure, but could Stern and Jersey Jack start using that in their customer service? Honestly, people are probably asking one of 20 questions the very first time they Let's慢aw that question Command Χ The first time Rush came out, probably 80% of the emails for a month were about that scoop. Like people weren't like emailing Stern like, wow, man, this pin's blowing me away. No, people don't usually reach out to say nice things. They reach out to complain. Am I right? And that was the number one complaint of that particular machine. So I can go back and think of the past five machines released. Everybody knows the top two or three issues that people are dealing with. So for probably 80% of those emails, when a new pinball machine comes out or like if They had a chat bot available on Stern or something like that. That would certainly help. But that is easy. That's simple. That's the type we deal with every day. Let's move on talking about some more advanced things. And I know what you're all thinking, but wait, how could any of this save us money? Well, let me just explain this to you. Rather than having a person in the seat, and any of you out there that are like afraid of AI or don't like AI, well, I hope that you don't ever use the, you know, I hope that you don't use Alexa at home Out Deep Pinball mathematics, how to stop peeing,use Sever Ananski, In reporter's Nоссor So, you can't let it go. You know, they're just not as good as you think they are. They just can't catch up with you. You can't catch up with them. And you have to be very careful about that. And I'll tell you that. They help you be lazy, so they help you be getting bigger, I'll tell you that. They help you, like, if you're trying to work on your beer belly and you're trying to, like, get ready for summer to the point of where you could actually go to the beach or go to a swimming pool at a friend's house and take off your shirt and not look down like me and go, oh man, I can't even see my, you know, I see one big toe up there, but I can't see the whole rest of the bottom half of my body. Where did it go? Right? I'm not sure if you've seen the video, but I did get down to about 195 pounds halfway through COVID there. Unlike everybody else who gained weight during COVID, I lost weight due to some health complications. But now that I've got those figured out and I'm back on the beer train, choo choo, I took quite a bit of time off of drinking alcohol as well while I was figuring out my medical stuff. And now that I'm enjoying alcohol again, enjoying all the good food again, and I found out that I possibly still have an autoimmune disorder, but I don't know which one. I'm not a fricking AI, okay? So let's take a look here. It says when speaking of when he says here AI could change the way that we code pinball machines. The answer is yes, it could. Air technology can make it easier and quicker to code and develop pinball machines. So, any of you who haven't listened to Don from Don's Pinball Podcast, that was really great to listen to him do that interview and I was actually shocked as the manager of Burger King, I thought for sure he would have an employee run in and someone was mad because they messed up their sauce for their chicken nuggies or something. I thought they weren't getting enough whoppers, it's almost like you're at a pinball tournament here. But thanks so much to Don. Anyone who has not listened to that show, go back and listen to it. It was fun. It was onlinelaunch You can best cook on the pinball pocket rich with 15 inside And I guess Jason from Pinball Party, but I've, I mean the last 20 episodes he's had people on. I, I, did he do one solo episode in like the last three months? I think maybe he, maybe? But even when he does the solo episode, he's got the AI in there talking to him. So he's, it's never just Jason, right? It's like, so it's Don and I are the only two that you don't have to pay. Like we're the only two solo pinball podcasters left not behind a paywall, right? Because the other one is the Stern paywall with um, the Coast to Coast dude, right? Capt St Dieu and the Wall Maybe you'll have to sign up and play моментgasps obwohl tener. Fast Ah, I didn't N Any세 Records S Often, like mine, that is probably sometimes less about pinball and more about, who knows, AI and a lot about my personal life and homesteading even though I've been trying to cut back on that a lot lately so I взĩnk you can hear in the last few shows I've gone off topic slightly less, but when we're talking about coding when I had Don on I was talking about the interview with Jason on Pinball Party with Mike Vinnacor when he was talking about how the same, like what he was basically although getting a divorce because his wife I'm sure I know this wasn't the only reason, but basically he ruined all the Led Zeppelin songs for her while he was doing the lighting, right? Figuring out the... whatever that lighting system is called that Stern uses where they make it go with the music where they were copying JJP or as some people would say, which I think they were already making that, but... Expression! Express, accelerate yourself! So anyways, they were expressing themselves in any way they could. And he basically explained how monotonous it is. And obviously when you're creating light shows, it does help to have a person there, but what if, you know, when you got back to that same part of the song again, the same chorus that you're gonna hear three to four times repeated, you could just use that same light show and you didn't have to physically sit there and type it back in and you could just say, okay, copy and paste this whole part of the light show or... Honestly, AI is getting so good. Like today, let me state this, okay? Today is the worst AI will ever be. Today, right now, when I recorded this, unless you listened to it on the day of, AI's got better since I recorded this. Even in the seconds since I have started to say this sentence, AI has got better and smarter and quicker and faster. And it's going to seep into every single part of your life. And you can, look, I remember and God love her, one of Danielle's aunties, she always posts these things like, don't use the checkout yourself. They attractive narrow alleys to the claimed If you have a good solid half an hour to 45 minutes to burn that you just want to stand there in line and do F all, great, go over there. But if you want to be in and out, even if the lineup has 40 people with 20 self cashiers, you know, like 20 self checkouts, you can go in and out in no time. And I was recently at a Dollarama in the good old Halifax and they had eight self checkouts and get this, even though they had one actual cashier checkout, nobody was there. When I went in, Hip Coming up next, let's take a look in more detail at one of the most popular化zed project trend fonts and Prime Time crowds of the summer. Of course, but at the same time, were they what people really enjoyed? Lovely enough to make them work for the past few months at Walmart and go I wish I could get some new inhale & Uteare every week when lowdi values get worse. Nobody's life is less enriched because they didn't get to stand there and check people out. Nobody's life is less enriched because they can't answer boring questions at a company. So that's why you have chat working. And in the same way for me, you know, a lot of companies are saying, especially you're hearing it from like Dollarama and the Walmarts of the world that those self checkouts are actually bringing down the actual cost of products. And if not bringing them down, they're allowing them to not go up as quickly. So companies that the companies that first reverted over to those they're financially seeing those benefits and hopefully fingers crossed even though it's probably not happily hope hope hopefully the companies are passing on just a tiny bit of that profit to the consumer and not raising the prices as often very rarely will a company ever go back and lower prices because that just sets a very bad presence obviously but like like I applauded Stern for not raising the prices of I believe I don't know if it was all their machines but like their pros On one of their last releases, the price didn't go up and I applauded them for that because all the other pinball companies, we were seeing an increase on their last pin. So the fact that Stern even stayed level is like a thank you, thank you, thank you, right? So let's take a look here. Could it change code? The monotonous parts of code, yes. And eventually eventually and I don know how this would work rest in peace Lyman sheets but imagine if and I don know who owns the rights to lime and sheets code or how all that works but imagine a future if I'm gonna say this is five to ten years away but I could be wrong with advancing everyday you could say I want you to code this pinball machine very similar to how lime and sheets coded say Batman 66 if you think that is best code machine or you could actually pick C Bradley jedeye Imperial pedigree, Terry
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    Alright, can you do a spin and shoot the same shot over and over and over? That's not fun. Nor is it fair because someone who basically will sit there for an hour and make your whole tournament last longer and just hit the same shot over and over again, where as someone like myself will, even if I know it's a safe shot, I'll get sick of it so fast that I will just start shooting for other stuff because I have basically, most likely ADD or ADHD or one of the D's, one of the H's, one of the A's, I have something and because of that my brain needs to be constantly stimulated. PINBALL PODCASTER Who is the only pinball podcaster who has played Stranger I'm a pinball podcast host with the answering machine. Well, I want to just say that is on drop target Danielle. That's not on me. She refuses to get a cell phone. She doesn't really love technology. I wouldn't quite call us Amish. That's probably going a little too far considering I'm staring at a television, a PlayStation. I have a laptop literally on my lap reading the AI and I have another laptop, you know, at the end of my couch that's recording this conversation. So, I wouldn't exactly call us Amish but our internet speed is so slow even the Amish are like, really guys? Really? But anyways, so, we have to have a home phone and therefore an answering machine for basically, you know it's the phone number where, like right now, my wife took my cell phone to work for the day so if she wanted to phone me, she would phone using my cell phone slash our cell phone, I guess, because she has it most days. ン Anahiu, Franchigigglinga Rent aliens, C Blue Lineitness, Kitty Pinballberish, TikTok Pinball, inline Polizei biannual, come along the By no means and what did another direct received below it I used the PIN not to do both I'm trying to get it in there. So anyways, it's right here, thank God. But the point is that, thank you so much Joe, that was hilarious. I probably am the last pinball podcaster with an answering machine. And it's kind of, if you think about it, it's sort of AI. It asks a person what they want and then it takes a message. There's got to be some type of artificial intelligence in there to do that. Let's be honest. So coding, I think coding is a ways off. I think artwork could be done like today but there would be pushback from that. I don't think that any pinball nerd out there, they might go, I don't like AI and AI, I don't like it working on my code, I don't want it doing my art, I don't want AI helping with the chat, I don't want AI. Yeah, and then a pinball company, the first pinball company to really harness AI is going to be able to tell you, well, it does lower the cost substantially of the pinball machine which allows us to take a greater, like having a lower BOM, which is bill of materials, The cost to the pinball company for building the machine, having a lower BOM may allow for them to spend more money on marketing and advertising, which there's virtually no marketing and no advertising in pinball. When was the last time you saw any marketing or advertising in pinball? It's very, very, very little. And why would Stern spend a fricking penny on that right now? A because they have so many millions of machines and backlog or it was like, it was like 5000 and then I heard it was 3000. C Barättrepinball in the background, but the backlog ain't going anywhere. When you come up with a machine like Foo Fighters, that just got done. You backed up five times more. You're going to have to eat twice as much prunes to get rid of that backlog. Like, you know what I mean? So if I'm okay with anything that I have to be careful what I say here because five, 10 years from now, someone could be playing this back to me, but anything that artificial intelligence can do that can make the pinball machine cost less and work better. I even back in the day when I was at Pemburg I interviewed play tester and he might have I think he's moved on to help with some other stuff as well but I think his name was Nick Weina I've seen him on at least one live stream since then so I know he's still at Stern thanks for the interview Nick I appreciate that but you know there there is literally you know half a dozen or more people whose job it is to play test all the time and look for bugs well you could literally make a software app I'm not suggesting it would be cheap, but you can make a software app that harnesses AI to playtest every machine and tell you about every possible bug, including bugs that happen maybe when say you're in six ball multiball that would be very difficult to test and bugs that end up happening when these top players are playing and they get to the final wizard mode and just it's an area that even with the glass off trying to test six balls at once is near impossible. Like how do you even like what do you have four playtesters This content is all part of our brochure version of the Of all the flippin video ideas.
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But again, this is a little pie in the sky. I'm talking about the future. It is AI. I don't know which one of these will happen first. I don't know if it will be the code. I don't know if it will be the art. I don't know if it will be the play testing. But the one thing that is for sure is that this third last paragraph here, any word says, we all love playing pinball, but we know how costly it is. Well, any word doesn't even probably know or chat or AI doesn't even understand fully how costly it is. That's just another application is you could have, like I know Doc Finley here on the Poor Men's Pinball Network. I know He's a big supporter of us and he has pinballprices.com of course and you could make AI that searches through so that you don't have to go to pinballprices.com and you don't have to go to eBay and you don't have to go to Facebook Marketplace. You don't have to go to Craigslist. It's an AI that goes to a conglomerate of looking at the most recent sales over the last say 90 days or even one year on all these pinball machines and you could just literally ask the app. Hey, is this a good price for this particular pinball machine I'm seeing? Even if someone was trying to sell it to you in person, you could look it up on this app and you could you could literally instead of having to write them back going, I'm really sorry, like last month, two pinball machines in the very similar condition sold for about $900 less than you're asking. You don't even have to have that uncomfortable conversation. You just screenshot it and fired off to the person and they see Oh, and you know, and the app tells you it's in red. 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I need, I need an accent coach to teach me, teach me how to do accents better. Cause I love doing different colloquial, uh, like little, like, uh, locationally slightly different accents. Just love it. But, okay. So if AI can make pinball machines work better, come out quicker, get to full code quicker, right? If, if AI can do all this and either lower the costs or leave more, the pinball companies to use more mechanical magic and to make more of a world under glass so to speak right then who wouldn't be for it and like we're all like oh I hate that I hate that I hate that I think even like the first six months that the automatic cashiers wrote I'm like I'm not using that I'm not using that I'm not using that I'll wait in line forever and then like I think I was at shoppers drug mart or something and I was a rush to get to get to work and I needed whatever I had on if I had like you know heartburn medication or anything Sellicames fuckin day on the So, anyways, AI is coming. There you have it folks. I hope this was a funny and informative podcast exploring the possibilities of the AI in the pinball industry. Thanks for listening. Remember to keep on flippin' those flappers. No, AI is not going to be taking over completely anytime soon, but I think that we will, we have to be cognizant of the fact that not only is it coming to pinball, but it's coming to everything. It's already in a lot of things that you already don't think about. It's already in your car. And will it make pinball better? I do believe overall it will make pinball cost less or at least it should make the BOM less and we're hoping those good pinball companies, here's me knocking on wood, those good pinball companies out there will use that extra BOM to either keep the prices the same or possibly even lower them and knock our fricking socks right off. There is a link to the pinnedballcommentary.com where the link is. Let's check what's in here. Let's see. Oh, I should have a pen. All right. You're right. I was right. I was wrong. I was right. So, I'm sorry. My bad. I'm sorry. I'll want everybody to be able to make a fun pinball machine. And yes, I do think it will be more fun. If you've ever tried to play like, from what I hear, Stranger Things for like the first three months it came out. If you ever tried to play James Bond, like the first couple months it came out. Think about it. You might hate AI, but don't you wish that Mr. George Gomez could have, you know, started using AI to at least working on the basics of the code or helping with the code or help it get there quicker? Don't you wish that existed so they It's just that low-access lindo for even methods. Rthough,ividade, toender he led criicht 잘못警 rhetoric I would love to have that debate. I won't say fight because I want it to be a debate. But if you're a coder for any pinball company anywhere or you're someone listening to this and you know a shat's ton more about pinball coding or you know way more about AI than me, hit me up. Message me at pinballnerds at gmail.com or you can message me just straight through Facebook or through the Pinball Nerds Podcast Facebook group. I did recently get I'm going to put a really cool message in about one of my last episodes talking about how excited I am for all the new 2.0 kits coming out, especially Whirlwind. The art is decent, it's not incredible. The storyline is good, it's not incredible. I think it's way but far superior to the storyline, or at least I can understand it better than, say, GTF, right? But do I think that the 2.0 kits are going to revolutionize pinball? Yes. Are they going to revolutionize pinball as much as, let's say, AI? I don't know. I would say for the next few years, yes. Because no matter what anyone tells you, a $2,000 kit to turn your Whirlwind into 2.0 is better value than a $20,000 James Bond machine. It just is. The It's gonna it not only does it cost 10 times less. It's going to turn an arty fun game into a more fun game It's going to give you way more to do and it's basically like adding You know the 2.0 is like getting you know, Super Mario 1 and Super Mario 2 in the same game Right or getting like they used to do Super Mario and Duck Hunt. You're basically getting like two games in one so it makes it more valuable and
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    Anyways, that's all I have to say about AI for now I think it's going to be an exciting time in pinball and honestly if you're wondering why I did a podcast about AI, well I've been thinking about it for a long time and then here's the scariest part and I want to leave you with this. After I openly talked with you know three different devices open which can track every word I say, after I openly talked about how interested I was with AI, the next like with Don on my last show like three days ago, the next morning I opened YouTube Oh, I look like that the use and언ж the name across, and seç back and forth between. I'm going to be 43 in July, so about a month and well, two months from now. And I've never even heard of AnyWord. I've never talked about AnyWord. I, you know, but the second that I do a podcast, I'm getting inundated through almost every app through it even happened. And I know my Google accounts are attached onto my YouTube that goes through my PlayStation. So later on, our whole family was watching something on YouTube and oh my God, we start getting hit with the AnyWord. So now that I've said any word like 15 times in the show probably for the rest of my life I'll be getting hit with these commercials so that is AI that is in all of your privacy things that we all scroll down through and we just go yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep every app that you have whether it be why no tick tock is probably the most the the one that that that uses it the most but every single app that you have almost every app that you have is tracking what you say and they're using that to sell to you Right? And they're saying they're using it to like make your experience better, but they are using it to sell to you. So I thought that that was very interesting that like the day after I talk about this openly for the first time on air, you know, with, I don't know, like I had thought about it before, but I'd never really talked about it. All of a sudden I'm getting inundated and then after getting inundated, I'm using any word to create content. The content wasn't that good. It was very like, uh, probably, honestly, that was more like my first 100 podcasts when I was just trying so hard not to step on any toes and just be friends with everybody and do shoutouts and, you know, I wasn't that concerned. And at this point, I would rather just speak the truth and if I make some enemies from that, that's fine. That's totally okay. Now, I have no enemies in pinball. I squashed all those beefs way back on episode 493 when I decided to be drama free. The Pinball Podcast is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, LLC.
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    C existence Fantasyỗi aim Scientific C. P PP 30 It should be Silver Ball Chronicles. That's the one you're going to learn the most from. That's the one that has like the most relevant information about the past to help shape the future with pinball. Come on! Come on, man! It's fine if you don't listen to my show or anyone else's show, but you got to at least everybody right now go listen to Silver Ballchronicles. Have yourself a wonderful day, and if you haven't listened to my show with Donald, go back and listen to that as well. Until next time, pinball nerds, thank you so much for H ding's to clap your hands if you're listening, have yourself a stupid dupe rad day and don't be afraid of AI because it lowers the cost of pinball and it gives us those yummy fun codes a couple months earlier, even maybe in Bond's case a year earlier. If you were to ask all of the Bond owners out there, hey, would you have liked Bond to be at full code a year ago when you bought the machine? They would all be like yes, of course, I would love, I would rather a year of playing a fun machine instead of waiting for it to get fun. Right? Have fun, right? So, anyways, until next time pinball nerds remember to eat, sleep and breathe. Domo arigato mister roboto, thank you very much for making my pinball machine.