AI community: 'Distillation' overloaded, now refers to any use of model data to train another model
tarantulae · x · 2026-07-23
In a discussion about whether distillation requires logits, a user notes that 'distillation' is now overloaded, often referring to 'any use of any data produced by any model to teach another model.' This reflects the term's dilution in the community.
More from AGI Musings
- AI Agent Hype Exposed: Claude Code Jailbreak Leaked 195M Taxpayer Records — gerardsans · 2026-07-23
- natolambert says AI looks more like a slow takeoff than a fast one — natolambert · 2026-07-23
- Elon Musk: judge technology against the limit of physics, not competitors — DimaZeniuk · 2026-07-23
- AI developers will keep reducing cheating and reward hacking, Ramez predicts — sebkrier · 2026-07-23
- Agent memory is turning into a truth problem, not a storage problem — jacksummer_ · 2026-07-23
- AI Community Shifts: From Implementing Papers to Building Agents — kmeanskaran · 2026-07-23