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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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[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

You know what? I like this.

In the best case, AI really does simply "cure cancer" and they have their day. In all of the more likely cases, we get to watch them try to quit in a few years while looking like the idiotic ego cases they are.