"I was promised a cancer cure" — researcher mocks AI demo as the opposite of lofty promises
kscottz · x · 2026-11-11
Quoting a heavily-researched demo shared by markprobst, kscottz jokes: "I was promised a cure for cancer and a solution to climate change. Instead I got the ass blasting simulator." A classic AI-circle joke about the gap between grand AI promises and actual research outputs.
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