2024 MIT Digital Technology & Strategy Conference: Generative Models as a Data Source for AI Systems

Conference Video|Duration: 44:17
September 17, 2024
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    Generative models can now produce realistic and diverse synthetic data in many domains. This makes them a viable choice as a data source for training downstream AI systems. Unlike real data, synthetic data can be steered and optimized via interventions in the generative process. I will share my view on how this makes synthetic data act like data++, data with additional capabilities. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this setting, and show several applications toward problems in computer vision and robotics. 
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    Generative models can now produce realistic and diverse synthetic data in many domains. This makes them a viable choice as a data source for training downstream AI systems. Unlike real data, synthetic data can be steered and optimized via interventions in the generative process. I will share my view on how this makes synthetic data act like data++, data with additional capabilities. I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this setting, and show several applications toward problems in computer vision and robotics. 
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