Schmidhuber says distillation was published in 1991 and later copied

tom_doerr · x · 2026-07-23

Jürgen Schmidhuber says a key fun fact about distillation is that it was published in 1991 and later copied by others.

The attached screenshot shows the broader context: he is pointing back to an early paper lineage and contrasting it with later claims in the modern AI boom. The post is mainly a historical reminder about how the technique predates many recent discussions.

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