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The speaker believes that providing an example of expert behavior can make it surprisingly easy to transfer that behavior into a relatively weak model.
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“It's pretty crazy and it kind of shows you that like once you have an example of like the right expert behavior,”
“it's actually surprisingly easy to like copy that into a like relatively weak model.”1:03:35Report a misattribution
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