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Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home (techspot.com)
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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

This is neat but also stupid. If a laser has enough power to fry a mosquito, it can also fry your retina.

Yes, I’m aware he added a safety system. That’s one layer of Swiss cheese in the safety system. It’ll work flawlessly until it doesn’t. How are potential reflections handled?

[–] MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 hour ago

Having lived in Florida, it's worth the risk.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Could run it similar to those disinfecting light bulbs (only when the room is not occupied)

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

How do you ensure that the room is empty, 100% of the time? Those disinfecting light bulbs don't have the same level of risk as this laser system.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Perhaps a second laser defense system can be installed to ensure people stay out of the original room?

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 58 minutes ago

I like the way you think. I think more of life's second-order problems should be solved with blinding lasers.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 55 minutes ago

Have it spray tear gas first. But wait, then the laser won't be able to penetrate the cloud. Maybe we could add a quadcopter drone to clear a path to the mosquito for the laser to fire. But then we'll need a system so the drone doesn't run into a human choking on tear gas, and the drone can't see because of the limited visibility, could we use infrared sensors I wonder? /s

This is a stupid system. I love engineers, but they tend to uh... overengineer things like this.