An expert human-provided starting point, such as Andrej's, can yield a lower bits-per-byte result, so human seeds still matter to the system's outcomes.

“be together but if you start from the human seed of an expert like andre then you get even lower so the human seeds from which you start do do still matter so that was an interesting kind of insight in my eyes on this and then as you go like you know how long does it take to to actually get to these models to get to similar performance it's much faster and then a similar thing happens with the speed runs”