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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by ModernMech on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:28PM (#45118388)
It’s not that they embed probabilistic behavior per se. But more like they are chaotic systems, in that a slight change of input can drastically change the output. But ideally, good compiler design is idempotent β€” given the same input, the output should always be the same. If that were not generally true, programming would be much harder than it is.
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Re:MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to C... by glitchc on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:39PM (#45131393)
No, it can also vary on the input. The -ffast-math flag is a good example.
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