Generative AI has the capability to produce realistic synthetic data that could help organizations in various sectors such as healthcare, aviation, and software development efficiently carry out operations. For the last three years, MIT spinout DataCebo has been offering the Synthetic Data Vault (SDV), a generative software system that can design synthetic data, useful in…
A team from MIT has created an image dataset aimed at simulating peripheral vision in machine learning models, a characteristic which AI typically lacks. This could improve the models' ability to recognise approaching threats and predict whether a human driver would spot an oncoming object. In experiments, these models improved in terms of hazard detection,…
In this Q&A article for MIT News, postdoc Nauman Dawalatabad discusses the ethical considerations, challenges, and positive impacts of audio deepfakes - the AI-generated audio that can mimic human voices. Recently, the technology has been misused causing public concern, for example, a robocall imitating Joe Biden’s voice instructed New Hampshire residents not to vote, while…
Chinese technology company, Tencent has introduced palm payment technology for use in Beijing's subway system. The payment system is linked to China's WeChat Pay platform, allowing users to simply hover their hands over a payment reader to tap on and off the transport network. The biometric data required for the payment is read by the…
Detecting personally identifiable information (PII) in documents can be a complex task due to numerous regulations like the EU's GDPR and multiple U.S. data protection laws. A flexible approach is needed given the variations in data formats and domain-specific requirements. In response, Gretel has developed a synthetic dataset to help with PII detection.
Gretel's Navigator tool…
Transformer-based generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are showing significant strength in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Among those benefiting are application developers, who interact with LLMs through APIs supplied by AI firms such as Google, OpenAI, and Baidu, who provide language model-as-a-service (LMaaS) platforms.
In the LMaaS scenario, developers send the LLM service user input…
Luma Labs recently unveiled Dream Machine, an advanced AI model built to generate high-quality, realistic, and fantasy videos from text and images. This AI device, which is built on a scalable, multimodal transformer architecture, is a significant step forward in AI technology. It has been specifically designed for video creation and is trained directly on…
Generative AI, recognized mainly for its ability in creating text and images, is now used by companies to create synthetic data for various scenarios aiding in patient treatment, plane rerouting, and software improvements especially in situations that lack real-world data or require sensitive data. DataCebo, an MIT spinoff, has invented a generative software system called…