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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 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"

www.businessinsider.com

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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

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AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
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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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    They should skip cigarettes and jump straight to smoking asbestos

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      can you explain to me exactly how you’d smoke the famously nonflammable lung cancer rocks

      I’m just curious, is all.

      Now, cigarettes with asbestos filters, on the other hand…

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        Give them a carton of kents

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          This is about as safe as an ai going to save you from the evil cancer cells

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          Cant die of lung cancer caused by smoking if you are dying by lung cancer caused by asbestos-tapping head.jpg

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          This is brilliant

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          Jinx, you owe me a soda.

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            Here you go🥤

            I didn’t read the last line of your comment and was like I know this! and just posted.

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      Or crack

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