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The speaker argues that reduced diversity is not inherent to reinforcement learning or distillation, and that distillation’s results depend on how broad its training data is.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“again i don't think this is like fundamental to rl as like a method though and same with distillation like even with distillation like you're just training on the data it's like just because your data is not like super broad”Play from 1:27:53Report a misattribution
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