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I am looking for a similar experience to Magsafe connectors, but for anything that plugs to my wall outlets. I find constantly connecting and disconnecting devices that share outlets (in my bathroom alone I have an electric toothbrush, a hair blower, and an electric shaver) and I'd really wish it was as easy to disconnect and connect as my Macbook Air's Magsafe adapter.

Now, I looked around and can't find a single product for this other than this one [0] made by a product studio in Oregon which is out of stock (also can't find any reviews online so can't tell if it ever shipped).

The idea feels obvious so I'm surprised no one has done it. I don't think there are any laws of physics that would make this impossible? Is it a case of a patent or regulations blocking this?

I'm sure the Magsafe engineers at Apple have thought of this :)

[0] - https://ilovehandles.com/shop/tug/

Primarily asking because I'd like to hear different perspectives, perhaps I am missing something.

Arguably, since OpenAI released the o1 models, LLMs are now 'smarter' than the average human when measured by IQ (I'm going by this study [0] which sets o1 at a 120 IQ).

What I am trying to wrap my head around is why has this not changed our entire world much? Sure, if you live on Twitter, a lot of people made a big deal about it. But in my day to day, specially when offline, nothing seems to have changed. In fact, I don't think most people are even aware that a computer is now smarter and cheaper than them and it's widely available via API.

Am I exaggerating things here? It almost feels like the world has not caught up to the latest technology. Does this happen with every new tech? Is this period basically a huge opportunity for early adopters? Perhaps we are missing ways to connect the o1 brain to the real world so it can have real world applications?

For context, I am deep in LLMs stuff daily as it is part of my work. I am keenly aware of the improvements that have been made in coding for example, I just don't believe this is on the same magnitude as 'AI is now smarter than the average human'.

The other side of this argument is that the LLMs are not that good, and they just test high because the questions are part of the training data, and in fact they cannot adapt and learn on the spot the way humans can (which I believe is the point of the ARC prize [1]). Another counter-argument might be that it's just too early?

Would love to hear what you have to say. Tell me how I'm wrong, or tell me how you think AI has already materially changed our world in a big way.

[0] - https://trackingai.org/IQ

[1] - https://arcprize.org/