Can synthetic data help AI?
Related topics: Artificial Intelligence Data governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) projects are hitting the limits of available data. Thus, there is a push for synthetic data.
Synthetic data are generated by machines. They are cheaper and less prone to legal requirements, including privacy protection.
But synthetic data raises a new set of issues: how to make sure that they relate to ‘normality’; how to avoid biases that synthetic, like real data, generates.
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