I think it's remarkable how the goalposts have shifted.
For an AI model to be "a big deal", apparently we need to be able to give it a hard problem in an arbitrary field, one that humans have not yet solved[1], and have it spit out a good solution.
[1] At least, I think that's your intent. I am not a laser expert so I don't have a sense of where your challenge lies on a scale from "known but only to experts" to "major research project, may turn out to be impossible".
I very much agree that an AI system that could do that would be a big deal. An AI that could do that would be a world-changing deal. But it's pretty startling if everything short of that is not "a big deal" now, no?
For an AI model to be "a big deal", apparently we need to be able to give it a hard problem in an arbitrary field, one that humans have not yet solved[1], and have it spit out a good solution.
[1] At least, I think that's your intent. I am not a laser expert so I don't have a sense of where your challenge lies on a scale from "known but only to experts" to "major research project, may turn out to be impossible".
I very much agree that an AI system that could do that would be a big deal. An AI that could do that would be a world-changing deal. But it's pretty startling if everything short of that is not "a big deal" now, no?