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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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[-] subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 12 hours ago

Journalism is dead at pretty much all the major news outlets. Its bought and paid for slop that maybe has a human editor if it's important enough to the wealthy prick that paid for it.

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