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synthetic data

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2025 by Chelsea Finn · across every show →

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Jul 22, 2025 negative
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Chelsea Finn: Real robot data cannot be replaced by synthetic data
“I think that at the end of the day, there's going to be no replacement for real data. And so we're like large amounts of real robot data. It's going to be a necessary component of any like system that's going to work in a generalizable way.”
Chelsea Finn Jul 22, 2025 ▶ 41:05 Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
Jul 22, 2025
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Chelsea Finn: Synthetic data's robotic analog is RL, not simulation
“I think that the analog of synthetic data in language models is actually not necessarily simulation in robotics, but closer to something like reinforcement learning.”
Chelsea Finn Jul 22, 2025 ▶ 41:47 Chelsea Finn: Building Robots That Can Do Anything · Y Combinator
Sep 30, 2025 negative
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Joseph: Training purely on raw LLM generations cannot produce a better model
“Theoretically, I shouldn't be able to train a better model than that. Like, I'm just going to get the same thing out. So I think that's-”
Nick Joseph Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 34:42 Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
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