Last month, Apple delayed the rollout of its more personal and powerful Siri features.As it looks to right the ship for future Apple Intelligence updates,highlights a shift that Apple is making in how it trains its artificial intelligence models.The report highlights a blog post from Apple’s Machine Learning Research website, explaining how Apple generally uses synthetic data to train its AI models.
There are limitations to this strategy, however, including the fact that it’s hard for synthetic data to “understand trends” in features like summarization or writing tools that operate on longer sentences or entire email messages.To address this limitation, Apple highlights a new technology it will soon start using that compares the synthetic data to a small sample of recent user emails, but without compromising user privacy: Apple explains that these techniques allow it to “understand overall trends, without learning information about any individual.says that Apple will roll out this new system in a future beta of iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5.
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