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Re:No One Knows Anything About AI by AaronAPU on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:58PM (#44676059)
We’re so unaccustomed to working with non-deterministic computer tech that rather than acknowledge they are hit-or-miss, everyone just picks one side and goes all-in on it.

Which sounds an awful lot like politics.

Re:No One Knows Anything About AI by skydhash on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:05PM (#44679139)
> We’re so unaccustomed to working with non-deterministic computer tech

The whole history of computer history is about making computing deterministic, after we found out that having generative anything (Recursion, Context-Free grammar,...) is a double-edged sword. So for any known set of inputs, you want the output to be finite and non-zero, and all items having the correct properties.

Re:No One Knows Anything About AI by AaronAPU on Friday July 25, 2025 @08:43AM (#44682502)
All of physics was like that until QM
Re:No One Knows Anything About AI by norm_namillu on Friday July 25, 2025 @05:49AM (#44681397)
"non-deterministic" is a weird way to say "mangles data 1/3 to 1/2 the time"