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AI researchers reportedly taking up smoking to signal faith in the technology

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A cancer researcher has humorously suggested that AI researchers are taking up smoking as a way to signal their strong belief in the technology. This observation, shared on Mastodon, implies a somewhat ironic or perhaps desperate faith in AI's future. The article also touches on unrelated topics such as Cisco and Nvidia's collaboration on networking hardware, and security vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint. AI

IMPACT This commentary offers a humorous, albeit indirect, perspective on the perceived faith in AI's future.

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AI researchers reportedly taking up smoking to signal faith in the technology

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

    What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Cool story aibro “So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI,” Sankar said to the confus

    Cool story aibro “So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI,” Sankar said to the confusion of host Margaret Brennan. Those researchers “believe so much in AI that it's going to cure cancer, I'm showing you m…

    LINKS theregister.com/…/5303118
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Making smoke cool again. ""So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Sankar said in a

    Making smoke cool again. ""So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Sankar said in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. The logic, he said, is: "I believe so much in AI that it's going t…

    LINKS businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smokin…

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