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Edge AI for Beginners

https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners
58•bakigul•2h ago

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bn-l•1h ago
They are really embracing ai! I can feel them all around even. Above me. Below me.
alansaber•1h ago
Always cool to see SLM support from a big company, albeit for inference
yalogin•1h ago
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?
fishmicrowaver•1h ago
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.
geraldwhen•56m ago
Seems to be. There’s little chance this was written by a human.
btown•48m ago
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...

pclmulqdq•45m ago
Yeah, Cloudflare is in the minority with their definition of "edge."
gl-prod•42m ago
It's funny that they used AI to translate into other languages, because the Arabic cover image is just gibberish.
tdhz77•35m ago
Not comfortable with the phrase edge ai.
TZubiri•29m ago
Google has a similar product with Vertex
doctoboggan•25m ago
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 its use, but recently if I detect some prose is written by AI it's hard for me to finish it. The written word is supposed to be a window into someone's thoughts, and it feels almost like a broken social contract to substitute an AI's "thoughts" here instead.

AI generated prose should be labeled as such, it's the decent thing to do.

lxgr•19m ago
Or just by somebody that knows how to use English punctuation properly.

Is it so hard to believe that there are some people in the world capable of hitting option + “-“ on their keyboard (or simply let their editor do it for them)?

doctoboggan•11m ago
I said em dash _and_ the word comprehensive. If you work with LLM generated text enough it gets very easy to see the telltale signs. The emojis at the start of each row in the table are also a dead giveaway.

I am guessing you are one of those people who used em dashes before LLMs came out and are now bitter they are an indicator of LLMs. If that's the case, I am sorry for the situation you find yourself in.

accoil•4m ago
[delayed]
iJohnDoe•22m ago
What are the best Small Language Models (SLMs) these days?
rmccrear•5m ago
I clicked hoping the models would be available in the “Edge” browser.

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