Conversational systems are going to build scientific breakthroughs, scaleable break throughs. These n surfaces, discoveries and so forth, will make a material difference. That on leashes new materials, new drugs, new forms of steel,. New forms of concrete and so forth and so on. It also helps us with climate change, for example. And i'm talking about really significant numbers. So that's an example. Another example is what's happening with these large language models that people are fingering out wit put a conversational system in front of it.
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