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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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[–] rageagainstthemachine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

I suppose this comes down to natural selection.

Even if I was 100% convinced that AI could cure cancer, I'd be more convinced about Big Pharma not relinquishing a multi billion dollar a year treatment industry.

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