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Synthetic data and self-play can overcome data limits

The data limit may be overcome through synthetic data generation and self-play (as DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero reached superhuman Go with no human example data) and through reasoning models that do chain-of-thought coupled with reinforcement learning, which is another form of synthetic data.

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Speaker

Dario Amodei

Evidence Quote

they managed to get a bot all the way from no ability to play Go whatsoever to above human level, just by playing against itself. There was no example data from humans required

Source

Dario AmodeiLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:36 AM

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