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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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[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What the heck are you talking about. They'll just need to adapt their prompt to include, "Solve ALL cancers. Do not make a mistake." and they'll have it!

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

You are an expert cancerologist

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I learned pretty much this from a Kurzgesagt and maybe some comments from Hank Green. This is not deep cancer lore that only cancer experts know.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Which makes these AI motherfuckers all the more dumb as fuck