Just spitballing, but maybe it would be possible with relatively modest advances in ion thrusters, and one (admittedly less-than-modest) breakthrough with fusion.
It's maybe too speculative to even matter, but I don't think it's _crazy_ to imagine a handful of AI-fueled advances in materials discovery during the next decade or two. Possibly enough to unlock laser fusion, or something that could be crammed onto a spacecraft.
> AI-fueled advances
There is no amount of money in the world that would get me on the ChatGPT rocket
By "AI" they probably aren’t thinking about LLMs in this context.
Just a dumb joke