Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"

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AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"

www.businessinsider.com

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

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AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO

www.businessinsider.com

Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.

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I have met some separately, but never in their native habitat. It sounds horrific.
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  a lot of tech companies are operated like cults.
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    I suspect cults have a better five year survival rate.

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