128: The Possibilities Are Endless for Synthetic Data with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Alex’s background working for NSA and starting a company (1:51)
• The Gretel.ai journey (9:30)
• Defining synthetic data (13:26)
• The evolution of AI in deep learning data and language learning (16:28)
• The properties of synthetic data (21:31)
• Boundaries between synthetic data and prediction models (25:52)
• The developer experience in Gretel.ai (36:44)
• Stewardship and expansion of deep learning models in the future (45:36) 
• Final thoughts and takeaways (52:17)

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