[oddevan]

> There's no FaceID (yet, maybe it's coming) on laptops, so we don't need the ML chip.

With Apple's focus on on-device ML, I would guess this will be the first part of the A-series trifecta (CPU, GPU, Neural) to be included on a Mac and exposed to developers. I can imagine a bunch of possibilities for such a chip, not just FaceID.

[IOT_Apprentice]

Exactly. Why couldn't developers/hackers start using the ML chip via python etc to do machine learning, facial recognition from remote cameras, etc?

[IOT_Apprentice]

Well what do you know! https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/numbers-recognition-mnist-on-an-...