That’s like saying that dreams don’t do anything to test drive what if scenarios because you will need a realistic model of behavior … or alphago’s self-play didnt improve anything because the opponent was at every moment equally good LOL.
Who says that dreams are to test drive scenarios? If anything, research suggests dreams are to process events that already happened.
Self play works for games with bounded rules and clear definitions of success. The majority of ML algorithms including LLMs don’t train on their own outputs because it makes their results garbage.
