Qualcomm Touts Eight AI "Firsts"

Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don't realize that they just took advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI). If they think of AI at all, it is typically in the context of Autonomous Vehicles or perhaps Facebook's (Meta's) massive data centers. While AI is becoming ubiquitous and distributed across edge devices and cloud servers, many challenges remain to realize the connected intelligent edge vision CEO Cristiano Amon has for AI to enable automated perception, reasoning, and action. For AI to enable the levels of automation and personalization Qualcomm AI Research VP Jilei Hou believes that AI hardware and software must become much smaller, faster, more efficient, lower power, and able to learn continuously at the edge in the real world. This provides the perfect complement to remote processing in the cloud, whose reach has been further advanced through Qualcomm's 5G technology.