AI, Mobile, and Eveything Around the Cloud

I'm going to go ahead and make a prediction: the upcoming iPad Pro with the M5 chip will be upgraded to 12 to 16 GB of RAM. This is based on nothing but a rumor — the same one suggesting the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro will jump from 8 GB to 12 GB of RAM — but it makes sense. If the upgrade doesn't happen this year, it'll almost certainly happen next year. Let’s be real: 8 GB just isn’t cutting it anymore — not in the age of AI. Apple was late to the AI game. Way late. While companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft were rapidly pushing forward with LLM-powered features, Apple’s AI presence was mostly background stuff — Photos, auto-categorization, etc. Meanwhile, Siri was stuck spinning its wheels while ChatGPT and others raced ahead. Apple had to scramble to catch up. And when it did, it likely ran into a hard limitation: RAM. From my experience running a few LLMs on a MacBook Air with 16 GB of RAM, I can tell you — even that can feel tight. Apple’s own models might be more e...

AI chats and I are inseparable now. I use it quite often on a daily basis for work. I seek quick answers when there is no need for me to fact check (sports data, basic history, summarizing important ports of an article or video, etc).  What I need to get before the store shelves start to empty - I don’t know if this is going to happen but I do not need to get caught without essentials. Help me craft a 30-day to learn the basics of Japanese. I really want to see how much I can do done under intense schedule. I played with my dog and read to her at night. I know she doesn’t know what’s going on or understand what I am doing but it makes her less anxious and really puts her to bed quickly. I started recording it and posting on YouTube. I asked ChatGPT for a business plan. I made my own stories. I am interested in turning these adventures into a line of stories for children. Reading a couple of books. I used Gemini to help me explain concepts I did not fully grasp. I did have to fact-c...