> In a lot of cases, it makes much more sense to send feature data to a remote server that can generate a prediction within milliseconds, and then transmit that

> In a lot of cases, it makes much more sense to send feature data to a remote server that can generate a prediction within milliseconds, and then transmit that prediction back to the device. It may make sense now, but not having to power up the radio for every decision is a huge gain, as lined out in the article. The current model of dumb (as in ML) devices is coming to an end, see also CoreML from Apple.