Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

Summary

A journalist plans to start using AI regularly, running powerful models locally rather than sending personal data to cloud services. The piece will document whether the hardware cost, including expensive RAM, is worth it for a non-expert. The source text is truncated before the full story.

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