Synthetic data is becoming an increasingly attractive tool for companies looking to accelerate their AI development. By simulating realistic scenarios, it can protect privacy, speed up model training ...

In a time when health systems are struggling to gain meaningful insights from data – and simultaneously aware that safeguarding patient privacy is essential – synthetic data offers a lot of potential.

The first time synthetic data was used to mimic real-world data was in 1993 by Donald Rubin. He created data that was statistically like genuine data, but without the risk of privacy compromise. With ...

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Last week the billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, claimed the pool of human-generated data that's used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT has run out. Musk didn't cite ...

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As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...

With the rise of generative AI, synthetic images and text have become common knowledge -- but are you familiar with synthetic data? As the name implies, the term refers to data that is artificially ...

How do you fix the very real problem of missing or flawed data in healthcare? Just make new data, says a leading academic. But is it as simple as that? In my previous reports on the challenges of ...