Some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they believe AI will cure cancer
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WTF?! The promise that AI is going to cure cancer has failed to materialize, but some AI researchers are so sure it'll happen one day that they've taken up smoking. That's according to Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, who says this comically bad idea is a sort of flex to show others how much faith they have in the technology.
Sankar made his claim during an interview on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. The exec talked about Pascal's quote of how there is a God-shaped vacuum, or hole, in the heart of every person, and how many AI workers in Silicon Valley had filled that hole with the machine god that is AI (or AGI, as he calls it).
As an example of this unwavering faith in their Warhammer 40,000-like machine god, Sankar...
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