Episode 696: Synthetic Data

A professor of AI from Georgia Tech joins the show to discuss synthetic data, AI training on its own output, and other potential conundrums in the ongoing saga of AI in the sciences. Guest: Dr. Mark Riedl of the School of Interactive Computing, Director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, and Gitesh Ramamurthy Endowed Professor of AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology. First broadcast September 11 2026. Playlist "I think I'm going to try to convince you that some of things that people are worried about right are maybe further off in the future or maybe not something we have to worry about right now."