synthetic data

7 statements across 7 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2014 by Chris Volinsky · across every show →

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Mar 20, 2014 positive
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Volinsky: AT&T is developing synthetic datasets to share mobility data safely
“So a project we're working on this year is to create what we call synthetic data, it's just a fancy word for simulated data. What we want to do is create a simulated data set That looks very much like the data that we have, but isn't.”
Chris Volinsky Mar 20, 2014 ▶ 18:58 Chris Volinsky, AT&T // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Nov 1, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Next major AI jump will come from self-teaching models
“At some point, like we lost saturated on data that, that exists on the internet. That's interesting enough for models to keep improving on that. The next big capability jump is probably going to come from the models teaching themselves.”
Aravind Srinivas Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 38:41 Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
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Eiso Kant: AI will recycle world data into synthetic data within years
“And so this is kind of our view and our, if you extend this a couple of years out, and this is where some people will probably have objection with us. We think that this will go so far. That we will kind of recycle all of the world's real data into higher qual…”
Eiso Kant Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 32:30 The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
Apr 10, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Benedict Evans: The tech industry lacks enough human data to 100x LLMs
“And so that means you kind of can't do like a prediction. There's no Moore's law here where you can say, well, it'll get to that power of compute level at this, but at this point set aside the fact that we actually don't have enough data to give it 10 or a hun…”
Benedict Evans Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 28:22 Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
Mar 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Kiela: DeepSeek proved frontier AI models can rely on synthetic data
“We have kind of an existence proof now that it's actually not that hard to do this and so you don't need to invest all that much in, in data, and you can use synthetic data and get a pretty good model out of that”
Douwe Kiela Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 3:12 Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
Jun 5, 2025 positive
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Gomez: Synthetic data makes up the majority of Cohere's training data
“Synthetic data is incredibly effective. It's now the majority of the data that we train on for creating something like command A.”
Aidan Gomez Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 38:11 Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
Sep 4, 2025 positive
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Valenzuela: Runway is exploring synthetic data for AI video training
“It is. I think it's becoming more of Thing, I would say. It still has its challenges, mostly to generate diversity of data, but definitely something we're exploring.”
Cris Valenzuela Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 46:05 AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
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