Machine Learning models on the edge: mobile and IoT

The wave of AI and Machine Learning is happening just as the dominance of mobile is becoming set in stone. As mobile devices become more ubiquitous and powerful, a lot of the ML tasks we think of as requiring months of high powered compute time will be able to happen right on your phone. This post will outline why edge devices are increasingly important, and how Machine Learning works with them. Unsurprisingly, this trend is starting to impact Machine Learning as well. A lot of the cool new features that we love on iPhone -- like face recognition in photos and FaceID -- rely on ML, some of which takes place on device.