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Probably it's a random sample of AI companies. Curing cancer is the marketing slogan, AI is not capable of doing that. But it's good enough to impress bankers a
by seydor 2mo ago
Probably it's a random sample of AI companies. Curing cancer is the marketing slogan, AI is not capable of doing that. But it's good enough to impress bankers and lawyers who will keep inflating the bubble for the foreseeable future.
- digitalsalvatn 2mo agoCuring cancer is such a lazy goal. Finding out how to make everyone smarter is a much better one. That's really it, isn't it. How do we make smarter people, without them getting insufferable?
- bigfishrunning 2mo agoThe smartest people aren't insufferable, but people who think they're the smartest are.
- aeve890 2mo ago> Finding out how to make everyone smarter is a much better one. Yes, smarter people, that's we need of course. No nuance needed. Smarter grifters, smarter drug dealers, smarter dictators, smarter serial killers. Smarter and more empathetic people would be better I think.
- ascagnel_ 2mo ago"Curing cancer" reminds me of a specific late-70s penny-stock grift, where companies promising a vaccine for cancer (but with no product or R&D) would be pumped-and-dumped. History doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
- consensus1 2mo agoWho says it isn't? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-026-01276-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-026-01276-6
- pwmglenn 2mo agoWhy dont you read the article?