#AI systems increasingly rely on synthetic data (computer-generated images and scenarios) to train safely and fill gaps real data can’t.

A statistician shows how this “fake” data can boost accuracy without misleading people:
theconversation.com/when-fake-…

When fake data is a good thing – how synthetic data trains AI to solve real problems

To overcome two challenges in training AI – scarce or hard-to-get data and data privacy – researchers have come up with a counterintuitive technique: fake it.

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