"Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim."

Cool. Excellent thing to write a news article about, Business Insider.

I heard that AI has almost cured gunshots. Anyone up for a friendly game of Russian Roulette?

And I guess it's also going to solve emphysema, strokes atherosclerosis, erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.

And in the meantime they'll stink.

Now that just pisses me off more. As someone who thoroughly enjoyed smoking but has stayed quit since the 90s, one of the things that has kept me quit has been the very quiet idea in the back of my head that if I ever needed to, if I ever really needed to, I could and would.

But the deal is I have to hold out as long as possible, or until an occasion where it no longer really matters. Meaning that because I'm a fucking mule of stubbornness I would probably see a mushroom cloud on the horizon and then die cursing that I have no time to fire up one last smoke for the occasion.

I don't even remember the exact year I quit now. I only remember I made that deal with myself and have kept it, and how good that very first toke of the very first cig is: all the rest go very quickly downhill from there and you're back to tasting like an ashtray and feeling like shit and wheezing up stairs. (Yes, it took me multiple tries to quit.) But I always had that one fantastic "emergency" first toke hidden in the back of my wallet of self-restraint.

And now these motherfuckers have taken that too. Pride's not great for much, but goddamn if I'll join these little pricks in a smoke. They've just sucked all the joy out of even the thought of it. Probably for the best, but damn. Hope it kills the little shits.

Natural selection I guess 🤷

Cancer isn't the only lethal outcome from smoking.

This is genuinely the stupidest shit I've read in a little while, and I've read a lot of stupid shit lately.

This is fantastic news.

Oh great people who can't research what cancer is are the ones researching AI.

They should do more research on what cancer is and what it is not. Cancer is not a single disease. "Cancer" is an umbrella term that is used to classify tumors with different genetic makeups. Different tumors behave and are treated differently.

Lung cancer can kill you FAST if you have a certain type of lung cancer. Smoking also causes almost half the bladder cancer cases people develop. It also increases your risk of stroke and heart problems.

Even if AI finds a cure for 'cancer' which it won't, I don't know why these people think the technology is going to be readily available for their treatment. I'm gonna state this again, these are the people working on the forefront of AI.

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.

"A cure for cancer" is such a magical nonsense phrase. We can already cure a lot of cancers. There are tons of people living healthy lives after surviving cancer. And we know more and more about how to prevent it (like not smoking). But they want magic.

Even bigger nonsense is the claim that AI will solve global warming. We already know the solution to global warming. We're just not doing anything with it, because of destructive business interests.

Pussies. They should take up heroin to prove their faith that AI will come up with a cure for heroin addiction.

The real cancer was the ai researchers we met along the way (so 50% right I suppose)

1. Create a machine that sometimes predicts the next word correctly
2. Mass psychosis

So either lunch cancer is cured or these peiple die horrific deaths? Not seeing a downside really...

Or they could believe AI will kill them sooner than cancer.

Either way, I'm not that impressed with Shyam Sankar's rhetoric.

I heard that blowing your brains out with a .45 round cures cancer.

I'm OK with this. It's kind of like rappers getting face tattoos because they're either going to make it or die trying. I appreciate the commitment to the game.

This is the biggest self own I have ever heard of. I can't believe this is real.

AI douchecanoes: claim to be smart enough to create something capable of curing all cancers

Also AI douchecanoes: not smart enough to know that smoking also causes hundreds if not thousands of other maladies, many of them life threatening and/or crippling.

Smoking is ridiculously addictive and the NUMBER ONE lifestyle cause of death in the world, bar none, and these idiots are doing it just to go PAST all in on vibe tech 🤦🏻

Not beating those cult accusations, are they?

Maybe they all think something else is gonna kill them before they get cancer, or retire and need all that wasted cigarette money?

They should skip cigarettes and jump straight to smoking asbestos

I don't believe anything anyone from palantir has to say.

Cancer isn't the only reason not to smoke. It's yucky and makes you stink.