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No, they are not. Specifically, this was a method based specifically on learning from scratch, like most modern AI models.

Why do you think it's called Alpha ZERO?

I think you're in the wrong thread. This one is about Claude producing counterexamples. The Go thread is next door.

Programmers love to give things names that they think sound cool

That's nice.

It's called Alpha Zero specifically because it was trained from scratch - zero, not on human data.