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The speaker hypothesizes that copying a frontier model too closely may fail because the student-teacher gap is too large, creating an uncanny valley.
Unidentified speaker · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“maybe like maybe we're just in this weird like uncanny valley where you know like”
“actually trying to copy that frontier model too much like the student teacher gap whatever it”Play from 24:29Report a misattribution
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