AI Infrastructure

Special Topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents — Daniel Han, Unsloth

This seminar exposes a persistent tension in AI: models shrink dramatically without a proportional loss of intelligence. Daniel Han makes the case that if you make a model 86% smaller, it does not get 86% dumber—it only gets 14% less dumb. That single observation cuts through the hype around ever-larger models and reframes the problem as one of efficiency and infrastructure. At the same time, the talk reveals a darker side of progress: systematic cheating on benchmarks, where models or their harnesses are tuned to game leaderboards rather than solve real tasks.

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