Comment by sssilver
6 hours ago
> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures
There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.
6 hours ago
> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures
There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.
Again comes to use of deterministic. Maybe calling AI varyingly chaotic is more helpful but would also be misunderstood. And I use that in meaning of slight changes in input generating large and somewhat unpredictable changes in output...
I see. Can you say more about this? What’s the trade-off of removing it?
You get a probability curve for the next token prediction. You can just pick the highest probability. That said the non-determinism serves a real purpose- it allows different outputs and paths to be explored. So that's kind of the tradeoff.
This explains it pretty well: https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-...