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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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[-] Devial@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

What're the chances of convincing them to take back up Radium as cure all, since the cancer they'll get will totally be cuted hy AI anyway ? We might be able to solve this whole AI issue in a few years

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