Take your machine-learning workloads to the edge? Yes, says Intel

Sponsored Artificial intelligence and machine learning hold out the promise of enabling businesses to work smarter and faster, by improving and streamlining operations or offering firms the chance to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. But where is best to host such applications – in the cloud, or locally, at the edge? Despite all the hype, it is early days for the technologies that we loosely label "AI", and many organisations lack the expertise and resources to really take advantage of it. Machine learning and deep learning often require teams of experts, for example, as well as access to large data sets for training, and specialised infrastructure with a considerable amount of processing power. This is because cloud service providers have a wealth of development tools and other resources readily available such as pre-trained deep neural networks for voice, text, image, and translation processing, according to Moor Insights & Strategy Senior Analyst Karl Freund.