Apple promises to deliver AI smarts without sacrificing your privacy

Artificial intelligence tools like deep learning have come on in leaps and bounds in recent years, powered by two main resources: cheap processing power, delivered by the cloud; and stacks and stacks of user data. For a company like Apple -- which has banged the drum of user privacy like no other -- this presents a problem. How does it deliver deep learning smarts without constantly sending your data to the cloud? And how does it get that data in the first place? At this year's WWDC, the company promised that it can square the circle.