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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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[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

can you explain to me exactly how you'd smoke the famously nonflammable lung cancer rocks

I'm just curious, is all.

Now, cigarettes with asbestos filters, on the other hand...

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Give them a carton of kents

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[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

This is about as safe as an ai going to save you from the evil cancer cells

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

This is brilliant

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Jinx, you owe me a soda.

[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Here you go🥤

I didn't read the last line of your comment and was like I know this! and just posted.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Cant die of lung cancer caused by smoking if you are dying by lung cancer caused by asbestos-tapping head.jpg