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Isn't the "edge" meant to be computing near the user, but not on their devices?
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hhh • today at 11:04 AM
It depends, because edge is a meaningless term and people choose what they want for it. In 2022, we set up a call with a vendor for ‘edge’ AI. Their edge meant something like 5kW, and our edge was a single raspberry pi in the best case.
pgt • today at 10:55 AM
Your device is the ultimate edge. The next frontier would be running models on your wetware.
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No it does not. This is about as “edge” as AI gets.
In a general sense, edge just means moving the computation to the user, rather than in a central cloud (although the two aren’t mutually exclusive, eg Cloudflare Workers)