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polishmijajca • today at 12:30 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

*chaotic

It is deterministic, if we're being pedantic


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pakitan • today at 4:14 PM

If we're being pedantic, it may be deterministic from the point of view of Anthropic. They can guarantee that my prompt X results in actual prompt X+Y (Y being all the settings they control), which would hopefully result in deterministic output Z. From my point of view, Y may as well be random, resulting in non-deterministic output Z for my input X.

iterance • today at 4:24 PM

It is not deterministic.

cyberclimb • today at 12:50 PM

It really though?? Even if you set temperature to 0 I saw research showing that the scheduling of the order of operations in the GPU firmware itself can change trailing decimals places and affect the output token

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thereader12 • today at 4:19 PM

Everything might be deterministic if we are being super-pedantic.