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I’d describe myself as a skeptic of the generative AI revolution\u2014I think the technology as it currently exists is situationally impressive and useful for specific kinds of tasks, but broadly oversold<\/a>. I’m not sure it will vanish from relevance to quite the extent that other tech fads like the metaverse or NFTs did, but my suspicion is that companies like Nvidia and OpenAI are riding a bubble that will pop or deflate over time as more companies and individuals run up against the technology’s limitations, and as it fails to advance as quickly or as impressively as its most ardent boosters are predicting.<\/p>\n

Maybe you agree with me and maybe you don’t! I’m not necessarily trying to convince you one way or the other. But I am<\/em> here to say that even if you agree with me, we can all celebrate the one unambiguously positive thing that the generative AI hype cycle has done for computers this year: the RAM floor for many PCs and all Macs is now finally 16GB instead of 8GB.<\/p>\n

Companies like Apple and Microsoft have, for years, created attractive, high-powered hardware with 8GB of memory in it, most egregiously in $1,000-and-up putative “pro” computers like last year’s $1,599 M3 MacBook Pro<\/a> or the Surface Pro 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’d describe myself as a skeptic of the generative AI revolution\u2014I think the technology as it currently exists is situationally impressive and useful for specific kinds of tasks, but broadly oversold. 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