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Classic game-playing AI systems are trained through self-play, competing against one another to become highly capable.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“Like classic game playing AIs are trained to play games against each other and that's how they get to be really smart.”Play from 1:06:36Report a misattribution
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