Open-Source Synthetic Data Tools, AI Voice Agents, World Models, Retrieval Systems, and Special ODSC Europe and West Deals

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5 min readJul 4, 2024

9 Open-Source Tools to Generate Synthetic Data

If you want to generate synthetic data to address concerns about data scarcity, privacy, compliance, and other issues, then this list of tools is for you.

7 AI Voice Agents That’ll Transform How We Interact with Machines

These AI voice agents can transform how you, your customers, and other stakeholders interact with data and technology.

The Evolution of Retrieval Systems in AI

Here, we discuss the challenges and advancements in AI retrieval systems, hybrid retrieval approaches, and evaluation methodologies.

Podcast: World Models — A Deep Dive With Andre Franca

In this episode, we speak with Andre Franca about the concept of World Models. We’ll unpack how they differ from traditional, purely predictive models, and explore key characteristics of World Models.

5 Cybersecurity Tips for Data Warehousing

Just as data warehouses themselves vary between organizations, so do specific security systems. Still, you should implement a few best practices regardless of your setup.

Industry, Opinion, Career Advice

Unveiling the Future: AI and Data Science in Financial Markets

Let’s take a deep dive into a recent podcast with Iro Tatitsiomi where we discuss the integration of data science and AI in financial markets.

Join us at ODSC Europe to learn from the experts and get hands-on with the cutting-edge AI tools and techniques transforming how we work and connect. Take deep dives into Generative AI, Large Language Models, LLMOps, and RAG with the leading experts in the field to build practical, implementable skills.

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Data Science & AI News

ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of June 28th

This week’s AI Weekly Recap is all about an actor’s callout of AI safeguards, OpenAI’s CTO on AI harming jobs, and Universal Music Group’s AI startup partnership.

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New AI-Powered Index Promises to Provide Insight on the US Economy

The Zeta Economic Index, launched on Monday, utilizes generative AI to analyze the movements of the US economy.

Robinhood Acquires AI Investment Platform Pluto Capital to Enhance Investor Tools

Robinhood Markets announced on Monday its acquisition of Pluto Capital, an AI-powered investment platform to add services.

Elon Musk Hyping Up xAI’s Grok 3 with Massive GPU Investment

Elon Musk is creating a buzz around the next iteration of his AI chatbot, Grok 3, through a recent post on X.

Suno and Udio Sued by Major Labels Over Copyright

Major global record labels have initiated lawsuits against two leading AI music-making companies, Suno and Udio.

Central Banks Urged to Leverage AI for Better Inflation Predictions, Says BIS

According to the Bank for International Settlements, Central Banks should leverage the benefits of AI in order to better predict inflation.

Limited Time Offer!

Get 6 months of access to everything Ai+ Training has to offer when you buy an ODSC West pass.

Dive deep into the cutting-edge of AI and data science with hands-on workshops and much more.

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ODSC Highlights

3 Ways to Engage at ODSC Europe

Between speaking, attending, and partnering, here are three different ways that you can get involved at ODSC Europe this September.

ODSC Data Science Meetup — Hosted by Cleanlab

Weds, July 17, 2024 5:30 PM — 8:30 PM PDT — San Francisco

​Join us for an evening dedicated to the world of data and artificial intelligence! This event is an opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals in a relaxed atmosphere.

​We are excited to feature a talk by our CEO, Curtis Northcutt, Curtis will delve into innovative approaches for handling label noise in machine learning datasets and showcase real-world applications of these techniques.

Upcoming Training — Machine Learning with XGBoost

Thurs, July 18, 2024 12:00 PM ET

This workshop will show how to use XGBoost. It will demonstrate model creation, model tuning, model evaluation, and model interpretation. The XGBoost library is one of the most popular libraries with data scientists for creating predictive models with structured (or tabular) data. This workshop will cover the library, tuning it, evaluating models created by it, and understanding predictions from it. Attendees will have the chance to try it out with the labs.

New Podcast Episode: Strategies for Implementing AI Governance and AI Risk Management with Beatrice Botti

Join us for a discussion on the key pillars of strong AI governance and how responsible AI practices can differentiate products and brands, demystify legal frameworks, and explain why data and AI governance are crucial for organizational success.

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Video of the Week: Scaling Laws, Emergent Behaviors, and AI Democratization

In this video, you’ll discover how large-scale, self-supervised pre-trained models like GPT-3, GPT-4, ChatGPT, and many others are revolutionizing the field of AI.

Upcoming Webinars and Meetups:

Generate Synthetic Tabular Data with GANs

Tue, Jul 9, 2024 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM EDT

Generative AI is popular nowadays, and we have seen lots of use cases applied to image and text data. Have you ever used it on tabular data? In this talk, Hanhan is going to share her experiments and findings on generating synthetic tabular data using the latest tabular generative adversarial networks (TGANs).

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