173
AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO
(www.businessinsider.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
173 points (95.3% liked)
TechTakes
2728 readers
209 users here now
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
segyges already trying to launder the unhinged out of the our chatbot will be curing cancer any minute now new round of claims by framing widespread resentment against AI as "curing cancer is less important than my job satisfaction".
So use it to cure cancer. Don't put a button in the email client that makes shit up for people.
Just one more round of improving the models and I'm sure they'll start being useful for science. Just one more round...