• TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Distilling has been around since forever. It’s a legitimate technique that can give you a better model depending on your needs.

      OpenAI does it too to improve its models.

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      People use compilers to compile compilers, or just generally computers to design computer hardware, all the time. It’s not so strange.

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        I thought it was almost entirely the point to automate stuff. We have a great tool to automate the automation.