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

By Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan

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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