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The role of synthetic data in the age of generative AI – Harry Keen, Hazy CEO and co-founder

UKTN | The Podcast

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5.06 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Harry Keen, CEO and co-founder of Hazy, explains how synthetic could address bias issues for AI training data, why we should prioritise the near-term issues with AI instead of doomsday predictions, and shares his experience spinning out from UCL.  

Founded in 2017, Hazy creates artificial data that replicates the quality of real-world data without including personal information. Companies can then use this synthetic data to train AI models without the associated privacy risks. The company has raised nearly $15m and has been backed by Microsoft. Keen was previously engineering design lead at Opendesk.  

Transcript

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0:00.0

The big challenge for any synthetic data company right now is to properly productize and commercialize the technology.

0:13.0

What is unbiased?

0:21.1

Because you ultimately will need a human in the loop there to decide how to balance a data set

0:24.7

in some way or another.

0:27.2

And it can become a game of whack-a-mole.

0:30.6

I think in all of the various flavors of this technology and genera-I do require a high degree

0:36.9

of specialism that just doesn't exist in the world.

0:41.5

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1:19.4

Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the founders of some of the UK's high-growth tech companies and other key

1:28.8

stakeholders. In this series, we'll be exploring what entrepreneurship looks like in the UK right now,

1:34.6

as well as getting tips from some of our most innovative business leaders and discussing the hot

1:39.2

topics in the tech world. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and I've been a tech journalist

1:43.8

for many years, and I'm been a tech journalist for many years,

1:45.2

and I'm joined this week by Harry Keene, the CEO of Hasey. Hello, Harry. Hi, Jane. Thank you for

1:51.9

having me on. Now, Hasey is a London-based synthetic data and generative AI startup. Now, talk about

1:58.7

riding the zeit guys. This is the hottest topic in town right now,

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