> I'm not going to be so stupid as to say 8 cores should be enough for anyone (while attached to a machine with 128) but you have to wonder if the stable diffusion style apps running on your desktop are going to be mainstream, or isolated to the few who choose to _need_ them as a hobby or a smaller part of the public that uses them for commercial success. AKA, I can utilize just about every core i'm given with parallel compiles, or rendering a 4K video, but I'm pretty sure i'm the only one in my immediate family that needs that. My wife in the past might have done some simulation work, but these days the heaviest thing she runs on her PC is office products.

See GAN Theft Auto at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0

Someone trained a neural network to convert controller input into video output that simulates the game Grand Theft Auto.

If technology keeps improving, I expect many future games will be such 'dreams' of neural networks.

You are right that running Word or Excel won't really benefit from more cores.