I can see someone in the future watching a program run and asking “wow, is that ai? A PERSON typed those cryptic letters? No way!”

  • PeriodicallyPedantic
    2·
    5 months ago

    Yes, that’s why it’s necessary for it to be non-deterministic. Without non-determinism, there is no error recovery if it chooses the wrong token somewhere in the middle of the completion. That’s much less useful.

    • howrar
      1·
      5 months ago

      What’s this error recovery business you speak of?

      • PeriodicallyPedantic
        1·
        5 months ago

        So you can try your prompt again. Also to avoid getting stuck in loops of repeated text. Getting stuck down a bad line of “reasoning”. Etc.

        Low chance of error comes with low chance of error recovery, conversely high chance of error comes with high error recovery ability (mostly just talking about temperature and top k, here)