They are really embracing ai! I can feel them all around even. Above me. Below me.

Always cool to see SLM support from a big company, albeit for inference

I'm a pro at using AI to edge but I usually use sillytavern, interesting to see microsoft going into that market

Isn’t edge AI just a way to deploy AI to meet product requirements? What is special about this course? Is Microsoft trying to sell this as a service? If so what is the revenue model and hardware used?

MS GitHub seems to be featuring a lot of beginners courses all at the same time. Wonder if they're just pumping them out with AI at this point.

It seems this is focused on on-device computation - as distinct from, say, Cloudflare's definition of the "edge" as a smart CDN with an ability to run arbitrary code and AI models in geographically distributed data centers (https://workers.cloudflare.com/).

Per Microsoft's definition in https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners/blob/main/...:

> EdgeAI represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence deployment, bringing AI capabilities directly to edge devices rather than relying solely on cloud-based processing. This approach enables AI models to run locally on devices with limited computational resources, providing real-time inference capabilities without requiring constant internet connectivity.

(This isn't necessarily just Microsoft's definition - https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/edge-computing/what-is-edge... from 2023 defines edge computing as on-device as well, and is cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing#cite_note-35)

I suppose that the definition "edge is anything except a central data center" is consistent between these two approaches, and there's overlap in needing reliable ways to deploy code to less-trusted/less-centrally-controlled environments... but it certainly muddies the techniques involved.

At this rate of term overloading, the next thing you know we'll be using the word "edgy" to describe teenagers or something...

It's funny that they used AI to translate into other languages, because the Arabic cover image is just gibberish.

Not comfortable with the phrase edge ai.

The very first sentence:

> Welcome to EdgeAI for Beginners – your comprehensive...

Em dash and the word "comprehensive", nearly 100% proof the document was written by AI.

I use AI daily for my job, so I am not against it's use, but recently if I detect some prose is written by AI its hard for me to finish it.