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"
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Even if cancer had already been entirely cured, that still wouldn't make me want to take up smoking.
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The cure is likely to still be at least somewhat invasive and unpleasant. Even if it's just a matter of a single injection or something, I'd still prefer to avoid that.
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I don't want my clothes and all my belongings to be coated with a brown sheen of tobacco miasma.
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I enjoy having 100% of my lung capacity available.
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Cigs are expensive.
90% chance this guy is simply lying about this and talking out of his ass.
10% chance that he's got some employees who are so sycophantic and eager to prove their dedication that they've actually done this as a stupid way to try and impress their boss.
0% chance that anyone has actually started smoking solely because they're sure AI will cure cancer soon.