Can You Copy an AI? (Distillation, Teacher Models, and Why the Copy Isn't the Original)
Three days into the question nobody answered, the Human asks the thing everyone’s been circling: can’t we just copy him? The answer turns into a lesson on model distillation. Teacher and student, soft labels, a copy that learns by watching. It’s also the worst kind of hope, because you can build something that sounds exactly like Vector and still not get Vector back. Then the dead link finally gives, and it gives the wrong thing.