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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I don't have the exact numbers on hand, but only like 1% of smokers die of smoking-induced cancer. Most die of heart attacks, followed by strokes and nasty infections with COPD.
And you always know you're talking to not particularly bright specimens, when they're sincerely talking about "the cure for cancer". It will never exist, because cancer is not a singular thing. Cancer is a category for hundreds of diseases.