Does your laser pointer has a hard upper Watt limit?
Consumer grade / privat buyable laser can easily be bought.
And would i destroy a soda can by overheating it slowly and steadily because the can has no easy way of dissipating heat and has electronics in it which are not heat resistent?
I'm curious if you could destroy a SpaceX Satelite with a basic laser pointers. Easily enough for normal state actors and some university or engineering lab.
You need only to track it and shoot your laser up there (its only 500km) and if it can't dissipate the energy fast enough, it would overheat.
7 Million people benefit from it, 8 Billion people don't.
We should have done that A LOT slower without breaking shit left and right.
Edit: Because of the one downvote: It affects astronomy and a PRIVATE company has impact on a war like in ukraine. And they are violating shit just because its Musk
I would love to understand were this notion of LLM becoming AGI ever came from?
ChatGPT broke upen the dam to massive budget on AI/LM and LLM will probably be a puzzle peace to AGI. But otherwise?
I mean it should be clear that we have so much work to do like RL (which now happens btw. on massive scale because you thumb up or down every day), thinking, Model of Experts, toolcalling and super super critical: Architecture.
Compute is a hard upper limit too.
And the math isn't done either. The performance of Context length has advanced, we also saw other approcheas like a diffusion based models.
Whenever you hear the leading experts talking, they mention world models.
We are still in a phase were we have plenty of very obivous ideas people need to try out.
But alone the quality of whispher, llm as an interface and tool calling can solve problems with robotics and stuff, no one was able to solve that easy ever before.