Comment by lkjdsklf
2 days ago
You're stretching really hard here to try and rationalize your position
First of all, I pick the hardware I support and the operating systems. I can make those things requirements when they are required.
But when you boil down your argument, it's that because one thing may introduce non-determinism, then any degree of non-determinism is acceptable.
At that point we don't even need LLMs. We can just have the computer do random things.
It's just a rehash of the infinite monkeys with infinite type writers which is ridiculous
No the point was quite clear:
> A few years ago we didn't have an imprecise nondeterministic programming language that would allow your mom to achieve SOTA results on a wide range of NLP tasks by asking nicely, or I'm sure people would have taken it.
But that (accurate) point makes your point invalid, so you'd rather focus on the dressing.
We still don't have that programming language (although "SOTA" and "wide range of NLP tasks" are vague enough that you can probably move the goalposts into field goal range).
This comment is written way too adversarially for someone who doesn't know what NLP is.