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Distillation using only easily verifiable tasks can match a larger model across benchmarks.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“But if you only have this, like,”
“this distribution of easily verifiable tasks,”
“then you can match the big model on all the benchmarks.”Play from 26:55Report a misattribution
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