synthetic data

3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 1, 2024 by Jeff Schmidt · across every show →

Everything said about synthetic data, oldest first

Oct 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeff Schmidt: Hermes pioneered synthetic data training before it was standard
“So Hermes was very early to the idea that you could have synthetic data, which is that you could actually make, you could make a better model by taking an AI model, having it generate words and text, and then training a new a model on that output. This is now …”
Jeff Schmidt Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 17:58 The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
Jul 21, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Bornstein: Synthetic data will not produce self-improving AI models
“The question is, like, does this lead to sort of, like, a self-improving utopia of models or not? And I think we have some pretty strong opinions on the not side of that.”
Matt Bornstein Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 41:48 The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Insight
Fulford: OpenAI bootstraps browsing models to generate synthetic training data
“For initial deep research, there's not really any data sets that exist for browsing in the same way that you have a math data set that already exists. So we have to create all this data. But once you have good browsing models or good computer use models, you c…”
Isa Fulford Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 31:30 GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
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