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Distilling a model is very non-trivial even when the distiller has full access to the model and its chain of thought.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“So it's very non-trivial to distill a model,”
“even if you have full access to it and have the chain of thought and everything.”Play from 20:22Report a misattribution
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