What Is Edge Computing In AI?

What was the motivation for adding voice and image recognition to the iPhone's SoC? If you've ever used Siri, Apple's voice assistant, you may have run into occasional problems where, instead of responding to your command, she says something along the lines of "Please wait a moment..." This is because at present, Siri uses cloud processing of voice data, and if she is unable to connect to Apple's servers through the internet, that's where the party ends. This is due to change very soon however, as this fall's release of iOS 15 will switch Siri to process your voice commands completely on the device itself. Voice assistants such as Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, or Microsoft's Cortana, on-device processing brings a host of benefits: Reduced latency since the data doesn't have to travel over the internet to be processed with wearable technologies Less use of bandwidth which can translate to cheaper internet bills Better privacy as the processing is all done locally and not on someone else's computer The Natural Language Processing (NLP) functionality on these smart assistants are sometimes designed as a hybrid edge and cloud solution known as "fog computing" because it's at the "edge of the cloud". In these systems, they process some data locally and more complex data in the cloud.