The other side of AI

Think of AI and you'll almost invariably be thinking of a cloud-based compute system where queries are captured at source and sent to the cloud for processing, after which the result of that processing is sent back to the source. But there's a different side to AI that's starting to gain more exposure, localised embedded AI. There's been a lot of talk over the past year about neural processors, especially in the smartphone arena, and we should only expect the buzz around these embedded AI platforms to increase. So what are we expecting these embedded AI systems to do, and how will they differ from the far more powerful cloud-based systems? We sat down with David Harold, VP marketing and communications Imagination Technologies, while at CES to talk embedded AI and the impact it will have on the coming years.