In recent years, wireless users have become producers and consumers of contents as their devices are now embedded with various sensors [1], which help in creating and collecting various types of data from different domains such as energy, agriculture, healthcare, transport, security, and smart homes, among others. Indeed, by the year 2020, it is anticipated that 50 billion things will be connected to the Internet, which is equivalent to 6 devices per person on the planet [2]. Therefore, the devices of wireless users will be anywhere, anytime, and connected to anything [3]. With large-scale interconnection of people and things, there will be a tremendous growth of data traffic with different characteristics (unstructured, quasi-structured, and semi-structured) whose scale, distribution, diversity, and velocity fall into a big data framework that requires big data infrastructure and analytics.

Multi-access Edge Computing: Since the resources (e.g., battery power, CPU cycles, memory, and I/O data rate) of user devices are limited, user devices must offload computational tasks and big data to the cloud [4]. However, for effective big data analytics of delay sensitive and context-aware applications, there is a strong need for low latency and reliable computation. As such, reliance on a cloud can hinder the performance of big data analytics, due to the associated overhead and end-to-end delays [3], [5]. To reduce end-to-end delay and the need for extensive user cloud communication, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been introduced by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as a supplement to cloud computing and mobile edge computing [6]. MEC extends cloud computing capabilities by providing IT-based services and cloud computing capabilities at the networks edges. In other words, MEC pushes 4C (Computing, Caching, Communication, or Control) to the edge of the network [7]. Typically, MEC servers are deployed at the Base Stations (BSs) of a wireless network (e.g., a cellular network) for executing delay sensitive and context-aware applications in close proximity to the users [8], [9], [10].

Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, especially centralized AI, is currently being applied in various sectors such as agriculture, financial, retail, and energy sector. The centralized AI, also known as cloud-AI, is implemented at the cloud data center or high-end computing machine, where it can get the full access to the globally collected data, the massive amount of storage and computing power. The cloud-AI based solution consumes a large amount of bandwidth to transfer raw data to the cloud data center as well as sending the raw data to the cloud has privacy, security, and legal issues. Currently, due to the growth of intelligent devices to provide real-time services with low latency and must operate under high reliability, even when network connectivity is lost. In here, edge AI plays the main role to solve the aforementioned problems, where edge AI is the combination of edge computing with various types of machine learning solutions. The pros and cons of cloud AI and Edge AI are describing in Fig. 1. Note that the edge-AI will not replace the cloud-AI and two approaches will complement each other.