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Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet

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The Future of Machine Learning?

When we on our phones can't run these neural networks, we make queries to servers like big beefy computers that do run the neural networks for us. These are located in data centers many tens or hundreds of kilometers away from where we are today. When I ask Siri what the height of Mount Everest is, Siri sends a query off which goes to a computer very far away. So it takes a long time to get there. There's a lot of latency associated with going through those big computers in the data center. You're put in a queue and then the result is sent back. That's why when you ask these questions to your voice assistant, it takes many seconds to actually get an

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