Machine Learning

How MIT’s New Technique Lets You Train AI on Your Phone Without Sharing Your Data Every time you use a smart assistant, a photo-editing app, or a predictive keyboard, your device often sends data to the cloud to help train the AI models behind those features. That data can include anything from voice recordings and typed messages to location history and usage patterns. For many users, that arrangement feels like a trade-off: better features in exchange for less privacy. ...

How MIT’s New Method Lets You Train AI on Your Phone Without Sharing Your Data Here’s a familiar trade-off: you want your phone’s AI features to get smarter, but you don’t want to upload your photos, messages, or browsing habits to a cloud server to make that happen. Until now, the two goals were in conflict. A team at MIT has published a technique that may break that trade-off, making it possible to train AI models directly on your device—without sending personal data anywhere. ...