[HN Gopher] Edge AI for Beginners
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       Edge AI for Beginners
        
       Author : bakigul
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2025-10-12 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | bn-l wrote:
       | They are really _embracing_ ai! I can feel them all around even.
       | Above me. Below me.
        
       | alansaber wrote:
       | Always cool to see SLM support from a big company, albeit for
       | inference
        
       | yalogin wrote:
       | Isn't edge AI just a way to deploy AI to meet product
       | requirements? What is special about this course? Is Microsoft
       | trying to sell this as a service? If so what is the revenue model
       | and hardware used?
        
       | fishmicrowaver wrote:
       | MS GitHub seems to be featuring a lot of beginners courses all at
       | the same time. Wonder if they're just pumping them out with AI at
       | this point.
        
         | geraldwhen wrote:
         | Seems to be. There's little chance this was written by a human.
        
       | btown wrote:
       | It seems this is focused on on-device computation - as distinct
       | from, say, Cloudflare's definition of the "edge" as a smart CDN
       | with an ability to run arbitrary code and AI models in
       | geographically distributed data centers
       | (https://workers.cloudflare.com/).
       | 
       | Per Microsoft's definition in
       | https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners/blob/main/...:
       | 
       | > EdgeAI represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence
       | deployment, bringing AI capabilities directly to edge devices
       | rather than relying solely on cloud-based processing. This
       | approach enables AI models to run locally on devices with limited
       | computational resources, providing real-time inference
       | capabilities without requiring constant internet connectivity.
       | 
       | (This isn't necessarily just Microsoft's definition -
       | https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/edge-computing/what-is-edge...
       | from 2023 defines edge computing as on-device as well, and is
       | cited in
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing#cite_note-35)
       | 
       | I suppose that the definition "edge is anything except a central
       | data center" is consistent between these two approaches, and
       | there's overlap in needing reliable ways to deploy code to less-
       | trusted/less-centrally-controlled environments... but it
       | certainly muddies the techniques involved.
       | 
       | At this rate of term overloading, the next thing you know we'll
       | be using the word "edgy" to describe teenagers or something...
        
         | pclmulqdq wrote:
         | Yeah, Cloudflare is in the minority with their definition of
         | "edge."
        
       | gl-prod wrote:
       | It's funny that they used AI to translate into other languages,
       | because the Arabic cover image is just gibberish.
        
       | tdhz77 wrote:
       | Not comfortable with the phrase edge ai.
        
         | TZubiri wrote:
         | Google has a similar product with Vertex
        
       | doctoboggan wrote:
       | The very first sentence:
       | 
       | > Welcome to EdgeAI for Beginners - your comprehensive...
       | 
       | Em dash and the word "comprehensive", nearly 100% proof the
       | document was written by AI.
       | 
       | I use AI daily for my job, so I am not against its use, but
       | recently if I detect some prose is written by AI it's hard for me
       | to finish it. The written word is supposed to be a window into
       | someone's thoughts, and it feels almost like a broken social
       | contract to substitute an AI's "thoughts" here instead.
       | 
       | AI generated prose should be labeled as such, it's the decent
       | thing to do.
        
         | lxgr wrote:
         | Or just by somebody that knows how to use English punctuation
         | properly.
         | 
         | Is it so hard to believe that there are some people in the
         | world capable of hitting option + "-" on their keyboard (or
         | simply let their editor do it for them)?
        
           | doctoboggan wrote:
           | I said em dash _and_ the word comprehensive. If you work with
           | LLM generated text enough it gets very easy to see the
           | telltale signs. The emojis at the start of each row in the
           | table are also a dead giveaway.
           | 
           | I am guessing you are one of those people who used em dashes
           | before LLMs came out and are now bitter they are an indicator
           | of LLMs. If that's the case, I am sorry for the situation you
           | find yourself in.
        
             | accoil wrote:
             | [delayed]
        
       | iJohnDoe wrote:
       | What are the best Small Language Models (SLMs) these days?
        
       | rmccrear wrote:
       | I clicked hoping the models would be available in the "Edge"
       | browser.
        
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