Yes, this is exactly what the quoted passage says. It would likely a few years of major disruption while techniques to generate alternatives were scaled up. But the disruption would be pretty catastrophic.
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Single North Carolina mine controls global silicon wafer production
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The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers. There are no alternative sources known. From Conway’s Material World:
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CEO to keynote MIT Sloan on open generative AI landscape
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Our CEO, @EMostaque
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Institutional Opportunities in Digital Assets Public Markets
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Public Market- Where are the biggest institutional opportunities?- Digital Assets: Realised https://
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GPT-4 adoption gap among business and tech leaders
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In every group I speak to, from business executives to scientists, including a group of very accomplished people in Silicon Valley last night, much less than 20% of the crowd has even tried a GPT-4 class model. Less than 5% has spent the required 10 hours to know how they tick.
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Conversational AI’s Future: Reshaping Human Interaction Across Industries
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Impressive how human this sounds.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 9 mars 2024
We’re headed into a weird future where the average person might talk to AI as much, if not more, than humans.
Imagine the use cases of conversational AI in video games, apps, robotics, phone calls, VR/AR, healthcare, etc. https://t.co/U8Lt0l63aJImpressive how human this sounds. We’re headed into a weird future where the average person might talk to AI as much, if not more, than humans. Imagine the use cases of conversational AI in video games, apps, robotics, phone calls, VR/AR, healthcare, etc.
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New AI Board Members Announced Including Sam Altman Return
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New additions to our board: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo; Sam Altman will also rejoin
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OpenAI Board Affirms Sam Altman Greg Brockman Leadership
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“We have unanimously concluded that Sam and Greg are the right leaders for OpenAI.” — Bret Taylor, Chair of the OpenAI Board The Special Committee of the OpenAI Board has announced the completion of the independent review into November’s events.
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Claude 3 Performance: Design Over Actual Model Capability?
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It is really hard to know how much of the Twitter reaction to the "smarts" of Claude 3 is due to the fact that Claude's system prompt/design is pushing the AI to act more human. I am not sure the model is actually better than GPT-4, but it more willing to play along with users.