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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Then their deaths will not only be self caused but hilarious
You know what? I like this.
In the best case, AI really does simply "cure cancer" and they have their day. In all of the more likely cases, we get to watch them try to quit in a few years while looking like the idiotic ego cases they are.
Yuck, smoking cigarettes is stupid and egoistical even if you don't get cancer from it. And it looks like the people in these companies really do believe their own propaganda.
Too bad smoking has more negative health impacts beyond just cancer...
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I know some of these words.
Good point. I switched in an easier to understand image
Thanks, that helps a lot!
- morons
Another marketing attempt. Stop eating these up