Okay. But then you could say the same for a human, isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?
> isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?
LLMs are not deterministic.
I'd argue over the short term humans are more deterministic. I ask a human the same question multiple times and I get the same answer. I ask an LLM and each answer could be very different depending on its "temperature".
I mean - try clicking the CoPilot button and see what it can actually do. Last I checked, it told me it couldn't change any of the actual data itself, but it could give you suggestions. Low bar for excellence here.
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Okay. But then you could say the same for a human, isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?
> isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically?
LLMs are not deterministic.
I'd argue over the short term humans are more deterministic. I ask a human the same question multiple times and I get the same answer. I ask an LLM and each answer could be very different depending on its "temperature".
If you ask human the same question repeatedly, you'll get different answers. I think that at third you'll get "I already answered that" etc.
We hardly react to things deterministically.
But I agree with the sentiment. It seems it is more important than ever to agree on what it means to understand something.
I'm having a bad day today. I'm 100% certain that today I'll react completely different to any tiny issue compared to how I did yesterday.
Right, if you change the input to your function, you get a different output. By that logic, the function `(def (add a b) (+ a b)` isn't deterministic.
I mean - try clicking the CoPilot button and see what it can actually do. Last I checked, it told me it couldn't change any of the actual data itself, but it could give you suggestions. Low bar for excellence here.
OK then. Groks?