[askafriend]

Any thoughts on synthetic data?

[rocho]

See "AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

[slashdave]

Dead end. You cannot create information out of nothing.

[NiloCK]

How did alpha zero succeed?

[slashdave]

By introducing new training data (train of thought) that was independently verified or explicitly constructed using external information.

[Filligree]

Which is why thought experiments are always useless.

[Lerc]

You're a creationist then?