The Decade of Synthetic Data is Underway

In this contributed article, Gil Elbaz, CTO and Co-founder of Datagen, sheds light on new developments that will make the ‘20s the decade when synthetic data finally breaks through to become a mainstream part of practical AI applications. Artificial intelligence algorithms are only as good as the data that train them. In the shift to data-centric models of AI, we are seeing a boom in interest in synthetic data over the past few years. Using synthetic data is one way to overcome the drawbacks to using real data for machine learning training sets.