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I think that all the "hidden in the cloud" services like what Google Photos does, translations, well basically every service Google has, must go "edge computing
by darkwater 7y ago
I think that all the "hidden in the cloud" services like what Google Photos does, translations, well basically every service Google has, must go "edge computing" in the next years. The hardware side is already powerful enough, even in cheap Android smartphones, we just miss a better, dedicated software.
Basically an Android phone without many Google Services, although there are some, like Google identity & authentication, which useful and online by their nature and you cannot get rid of them easily. And Google Services come as a pack...
- londons_explore 7y agoGoogle is doing that already. They recently released on-device realtime live video captioning for example. There will always be a performance gap between multi-gigabyte server ML models and client side ones though - and it's up to the users how they prefer the privacy Vs performance tradeoff.
- NilsIRL 7y agoExcept that would allow people to reverse engineer the code which I think is one the main reasons there is still a lot of services that are in the cloud.
- darkwater 7y agoAFAIK Apple already does lot of local device post processing and nobody broke it