Your Phone Can Now Train AI Privately — Here's How MIT Made It Possible
Your Phone Can Now Train AI Privately — Here’s How MIT Made It Possible For years, the convenience of AI-powered features on your smartphone came with a trade‑off: your personal data had to leave your device and travel to a cloud server for training. Photos, voice patterns, typing habits — all of it was sent out, stored, and used to improve the algorithms that power everything from predictive text to photo recognition. That arrangement was always a privacy risk, and it assumed you were comfortable with companies holding copies of your data. A new technique from MIT researchers changes that assumption. ...