Thanks to Claude AI, a university student was able to build a functioning fusion reactor at home. That someone was Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a math major at the University of Waterloo.
Of course, they also had to spend some money. Using $2,000 they were able to create a mini fusor and hooked it up to a 12kV neon sign transformer for power.
In week one of the project, he created a plan and made a list of components. During week two, the main chamber and rectifier circuit was assembled. Once week three came around, the device was setup and the neon transformer was integrated.
The hardest part of the entire process seemed to be the vacuum system. He had to deal with some tiny leaks, which became an issue. Sadly, its unable to create fusion – which means it doesn’t make neutrons. He’s not giving up just yet, he just needs the funding to make the “full fusor”.
What’s crazy about this entire process is that Hudhayfa had zero hardware experience before this. He only received help from other engineers on campus, and Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot. Still, not everyone could build a fusion reactor. However, it’s still really impressive that he was able to do so.
Big steps are being made in Artificial Intelligence. Heck, even Amazon will soon integrate it into Amazon Alexa.
Image: Hudhayfa Nazoordeen