That's a really good question.

If people really just want a personal assistant ala clawbot then you can run a 5 month old model like GLM-4_7-Flash-REAP-23B on a mac mini with 32-64 GB unified memory easily and it will read, summarize and reply to all your emails, post on SN for ya so we have something to downzap, and manage your calendar for you. Even participate in that non-existing agent economy that the entirety of bitcoin twitter + nostr tries to convince the world is real. The model overall performs worse than Deepseek R1 (from early 2025) for knowledge/chat tasks, but you can run it on low-end hardware and it is instructed in executing tasks.

I have ran this exact thing for a month and a bit until I got dissatisfied with the entire *claw architecture and simply shut it off. Also I had nothing for it to do because (a) it is a retarded vision in the first place and (b) since I'm not giving it my pgp keys or access to signal, it can't really read anything worth reading anyway. For the normie, when combined with search integration, is probably all they'll ever need. But, as Apple is just going to put this on everyone's phone through Siri, normies don't need that mac mini at all.

I think that if normies stay as enslaved to the prefabricated crap they doomscroll every day and do not empower themselves, there will be nothing but UBI a-la The Expanse for them in the future. Maybe with 5% of humanity we can do all the breakthroughs and good riddance on the 95% though, but they'll drown in compliance hell and I don't really wish that to the worst of my enemies. I'd rather have everyone at least have the opportunity to do great things.