Distilling From Smart General Models Beats Human Annotation for Cheap Narrow AI
ricklamers · x · 2026-09-07
Boris Power highlights a distillation path: use a strong general model to create annotations faster, more accurately, and cheaper than humans, then distill it into narrow, task-specific intelligence — solving the cost bottleneck of building specialized models.
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