>I'm going to upload the photos to iCloud anyways; let me pay an extra $1/month or whatever to have that identification happen in the cloud, on a server built f

>I'm going to upload the photos to iCloud anyways; let me pay an extra $1/month or whatever to have that identification happen in the cloud, on a server built for it that has data center thermal dissipation and is plugged into the wall. You might not be in area of poor connection and can't connect to the cloud. One use for AI is speech recognition / transcription for deaf/HoH individuals. Up until now its almost been done exclusively on the cloud and it works fairly well (depending on conditions). Recently there's been an interest in doing it locally without relying on a network connection. There's also privacy issues with transmitting this data over a network.