points by jwitthuhn 1 day ago | 0 comments
It is a great example to refute the common misconception that LLMs are inherently non-deterministic. I see people repeating this a lot and being able to point at a CPU implemented within one is a very strong counter-example.
[–] thereader12 14 hours ago
The non-deterministic nature is like the main feature. Also, you could be a cpu with enough patience, you would still be non-deterministic.
[–] rvz 1 day ago
> It is a great example to refute the common misconception that LLMs are inherently non-deterministic.
No it isn't.
Realistically the opposite is true in practice and LLMs are really non-deterministic beyond simplistic experiments such as this in useful activities in production. Even with hacks such as "setting temp=0" (which no-one seriously does) to "achieve determinism", was one of the most common misconceptions ever propagated by "AI engineers".
So using tiny slop experiments aren't really useful as a "strong counter-example". In fact this is a very weak one.
It's truly not that interesting.