On Friday, May 16, Rice professor Richard Baraniuk from the electrical and computer engineering department was featured on the nationally syndicated radio show On Point, produced by WBUR Boston, an NPR affiliate. The topic of the episode is a deep dive into the expected shortage of real-world data to train AI models, the use of synthetic data as a solution, and the benefits and risks of synthetic data.

The producer didn’t require anything in particular. The audio interview was recorded over a Zoom meeting. It’s aired on Monday, May 19. It’s available to listen to: What happens when you train your AI on AI-generated data?

To hear the host’s questions, tune in at timecodes 33:24 and 38:28.
To listen to Professor Baraniuk’s responses, go to 34:13–34:31 and 38:42–39:02.