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Gustafson's Law and Amdahl's Law.

Amdahl's says you get a diminishing effect, and we're already seeing this as we get into the GPT-4 level of performance, where it doesn't quite perform better at some tasks as 3.5.

Gustafson's says that as power increases, you'll tackle problems that were previously untacklable, and this cycles into more productivity. So CPUs lead to web to cloud computing to social networks and things like people emailing a file from mobile to PC instead of using a data cable.

Gustafson's creates a whole line of other jobs and different bottlenecks.

It's the framework paradox as well - you think frameworks would reduce the difficulty and pay of jobs, but they only go higher. It's why tech people are more eager to get into AI.




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