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AI Researchers Adopt Smoking to Signal Belief in Field

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Some AI researchers are reportedly adopting smoking as a way to signal their strong belief in the field's potential. This trend was noted by Sankar, who observed this behavior among peers. AI

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AI Researchers Adopt Smoking to Signal Belief in Field

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    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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