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For me I see a big positive with AI. Codan, MLs parent company have over the years achieved much in what was noisy/scratchy long range HF side band communication without range loss using software. Their ZVT tech achieved a big jump in combating ground noise and giving us more depth, can they achieve the next big jump with incorporating AI smart chips that learn and adapt to varying ground and give us the Holy Grail of detecting... total ground control without depth loss.

Aye very true AI tis a tricky one to nail down by just definition, auto GB and many years before that auto tuning and thus why I mentioned Geosense. I do note manufacturers of hearing aids do have auto environment adjustments in their cheaper models that they don`t claim to be AI, but to hear the diff between those and their AI claimed models is like chalk and cheese, my hearing difficulties in both ears are from my very early occupational years. Mad plumber from the solid rivet tank building era. Artificial = not real aka fake.... aye that puts the cat amongst the pigeons 😉

AI by whatever definition you wish to use is created by those people brains, now the hearing aid manufacturers are saying some of their higher tech models use AI to automatically adjust to different environments. Your opinion maybe it`s not AI but I`ll trust the hearing manufacturers definition on this one whether you believe it`s just glossy marketing or not. What`s in a name Grasshopper..........😉

Me too I`m more than thrilled especially the way hearing aids now can intelligently automatically adjust positively from detecting to the other different noise environments one experiences tis amazing, and another advantage with the current price of gold an ounce gets you hearing pretty clearly. Certainly is real today.

Aye weight in my pocket proves this as does my hearing and that`s not just an opinion tis a long term experience. Whether we wish to call some advances AI, Geosense or whatever to market such....😉 Aye Wild Bill tis a bad negative we are filling our land fill with old unwanted techs. Maybe AI might come up with an answer to that.

Like I said Phrunt unless your hearing is buggered and has been for years, you have no practical understanding of the advances that have been made over the years in such tech. AI to you may be marketing to me it`s hearing. Modern hearing aids are no longer just sound amplifiers as detectors are no longer just metal detectors. Aye I`m definitely sold on tech, keeps the weight in the pocket 😉

Unless your hearing is buggered you probably don`t understand where I`m coming from, AI is making inroads into hearing aids and I can tell you tis pretty amazing tech as my ears from current trials are telling me. Wild Bill I`m not laughing I`m "detecting" an AI detector on the horizon.😉

Very true GiI, but after only scratching around for scraps one can get a mindset and believes that sudden big signal is just rubbish and leaves it only to find later it was a bigun. How many of us have done this?? I`m guilty...........🤬

Here`s one from the 90s in the Treasurers hand. It was a sunbaker.

Flack, Thank you for your care. Rather ironic I picked this season to build a dam on block for water security, thought it`d take 1/2 of the wet to fill, filled in a couple of days. I am one of the very fortunate few that has benefitted from this wet season, most are going to take years/decades to recover with some being totally destroyed.

Thank you for your care GAU, we are very fortunate as we live up in the "northern highlands", the positive from all this water in the outback is it slowly flows into OZs "inland sea" Lake Eyre which fills only a few times each century, it then takes about two years to dry up and return to its normal dry condition. Floods, drought and fire...... Mother Nature at work, she is cruel on one hand kind on the other. https://www.britannica.com/place/Lake-Eyre

Recent Texas sized floods OZ, prolonging cabin fever for us gold fever addicts but disaster for our people in the outback and the cattle industry. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/02/queenslands-floods-flooding-recovery-months-years-outback-interior

Although I`ve posted this before tis perhaps topical. In 1986 bought a new 6 diesel Toyota Troopcarrier cost 50ozs, in 2020 replaced the old Troopie with a new one cost 35ozs, a much more refined Troopie with V8 Turbo Diesel, A/c, Diff Locks, electric windows, navigator etc. With gold going turbo recently a new one outfitted same except 4cyl Turbo Diesel as 5 years ago will cost 17ozs today.

Aye it got me started, bought because was neither the 6000D or ADS were available up here in FNQ, then the A2B which really opened FNQs small gold in specimen fields. Then gold hit $800 or there abouts hooked me proper with Gold Fever as I imagine a lot will be so inflicted now as gold goes turbo.

I am with KL no regrets, however if the price didn`t recently go turbo I would have not recently built the big dam on my reFirement block "The Knob" which was originally bought back in 06 then steadily developed by gold. Aye I`ve always felt very privileged and fortunate to participate in the Detecting Gold Rush from its onset.