Isn't the "edge" meant to be computing near the user, but not on their devices?
Isn't the "edge" meant to be computing near the user, but not on their devices?
In a general sense, edge just means moving the computation to the user, rather than in a central cloud (although the two aren’t mutually exclusive, eg Cloudflare Workers)
For those that have lost their marbles: sure, people use words incorrectly, but that does mean we all have to use those words incorrectly.
In compute vernacular, "edge" means it's distributed in a way that the compute is close to the user (the "user" here is the device, not a person); "on device" means the compute is on the device. They do not mean the same thing.
Can't wait until AI companies go from mimicking human thought to figuring how to licensing those thoughts. ;)