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$124B Data Problem: How Synthetic Data Accelerates AI

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When your AI has to make decisions in the real world, the data you don’t have can hurt people.
DiffuseDrive CEO Bahlint Pasztor joins IT Visionaries to unpack the $124B data scarcity problem holding back autonomous systems — and how synthetic data (done right) can compress years of data collection into hours.

We dig into: why edge cases matter (and how to safely create them), closing the sim-to-real gap with diffusion models, preventing model drift, and building a data engine for physical AI across defense, robotics, and industrial automation. If you care about self-driving cars, drones, QA on the factory floor—or just shipping AI that survives the messiness of reality—this one’s for you.

Key Moments:

00:00 Introduction to Autonomous Driving Challenges
00:26 Meet Bain Pastor and Diffuse Drive
01:14 The Importance of Synthetic Data
06:39 The Role of Synthetic Data in AI Training
18:07 Understanding Diffusion Models
23:28 Challenges in Real-World Data Collection
26:46 Three Steps to Improve AI Performance
32:13 Overcoming Non-Obvious Data Challenges
36:00 Balancing Data Quantity and Quality
40:28 Future of Autonomous Systems and Physical AI

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