How MIT's New Method Lets You Train AI on Your Phone Without Sharing Your Data
How MIT’s New Method Lets You Train AI on Your Phone Without Sharing Your Data For anyone who has used a smartphone keyboard that learns your typing habits or a photo app that automatically sorts faces, the trade-off has always been the same: better personalization requires sending your data to the cloud. But a team at MIT has developed a technique that flips that assumption. In a paper published last month, they demonstrated a way to train AI models on everyday devices—phones, laptops, smart home gadgets—without ever transmitting private information to a remote server. The method also turns out to be more energy-efficient, which could make it practical for devices with limited battery and processing power. ...