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by nprateem 2y ago
My calculator manages
- shepherdjerred 2y agoYour calculator is deterministic. Humans and AI are not.
- nprateem 2y agoExactly
- vidarh 2y agoThe point is don't ask an LLM to do tasks that a calculator can do. Ask if to use the calculator, just like most humans would.
- nprateem 2y agoI know. That was my point.
- chowells 2y agoThe point is that you shouldn't need to ask. If it's actually a general-purpose system it will do it automatically.
- vidarh 2y agoAn LLM in isolation is not a general purpose system, but with ChatGPT at least, most of the time you don't need to ask. In fact, it's increasingly difficult to force it to do "manual" maths, as it's strongly predisposed to do things like write and evaluate Python code instead of doing it "manually". E.g. I verified just now and asked it to multiply two huge numbers, and it immediately spat out Python code, then evaluated it and gave me the result, rather than try to add the numbers itself.
- int_19h 2y agoIt still needs to be trained on what calculators are, on how to use them, and on when it is appropriate to do so. Again, same as humans.
- jayd16 2y agoLLMs are deterministic. We just sample the results, no? Also, no reason AI needs not be deterministic.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago> LLMs are deterministic. In theory, yes. In practice, parallelism combined with floating point math make current implementations fundamentally non-deterministic.
- Tycho 2y agoCan you elaborate more on the parallelism aspect?
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- mensetmanusman 2y agoNot fundamentally, but extremely costly to keep track of everything. Still deterministic though.
- joquarky 2y agoTemperature cannot ever reach 0 (this causes a division error), so they are not deterministic.