destructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAI 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1157file-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1157external-linkAI 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.comdestructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square32linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-squarePineRune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·3 days agoplot twist: AI does develop a cure for cancer, but the only way to get it is to pay millions of dollars for the cure because it’s owned by the richest people in the world, and they don’t want “filthy poor people” to have access to it.
minus-squareImgurRefugee114@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·edit-22 days ago“[Describes current reality]. Can you even imagine such a hypothetical dystopia?”
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoThat’s all right I’ll just wait for the open source version. The open source communities usually about six months behind the frontier models anyway.
plot twist: AI does develop a cure for cancer, but the only way to get it is to pay millions of dollars for the cure because it’s owned by the richest people in the world, and they don’t want “filthy poor people” to have access to it.
“[Describes current reality]. Can you even imagine such a hypothetical dystopia?”
This is reality.
That’s all right I’ll just wait for the open source version. The open source communities usually about six months behind the frontier models anyway.