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

  • Written by Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
imageThese faces are fake – generated by artificial intelligence – but useful for training other AI systems about human faces.David Beniaguev

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