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Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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And as usual... There was zero "AI" actually used because it doesn't exist.
Computer vision is not intelligence. It's just statistics and compute. So sick of this BS grift.
How do you define intelligence anyway?
"Hey! That's a mosquito!" is a level of intelligence.