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Capturing all of a model’s useful capabilities through distillation requires prompting it with a wide distribution of realistic prompts.
John Schulman · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sep 2026
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“distill all of the all the useful capabilities from it because you need to prompt the model with something and you need to prompt it with like realistic prompts you need to have a really wide distribution of realistic prompts so yeah one thing that's been coming out recently is”20:33Report a misattribution
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