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Totally. It's a bit pricey for anything like a genuine personal assistant right now though. $15k or so to get the basics.
Atm the meta for local inference is unified memory and “routed” local agents (multiple smaller role-specific agents in a trench coat)
The former is standout for cost efficiency (e.g., 4x RDMA 48gb Minis for a 192gb cluster @ $43/gb vs a $45k b200 alone)
The latter is standout for many things, including resource efficiency on smaller machines
That'll surely work to automate simple mental labor or tasks, but I don't think a swarm of minis is going to be able to provide impactful personal and psychosocial analysis of your life.