Thinking specifically about AI here: if a process does not give a consistent or predictable output (and cannot reliably replace work done by humans) then can it really be considered “automation”?

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    In practice there really is no incentive to avoid stochastic or pseudorandom elements, so don’t hold your breath, haha. It’s a pretty academic question if you could theoretically train an LLM without any randomness.

    Thanks for writing that up, I learned a few things.

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      25 minutes ago

      Exactly!

      Thanks for reading :) Realised i was going on a bit of a rant, but thought why not keep going lol