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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer
pbxscience.com/torvalds-ai-is-the-new-compiler-not-the-new-programmer/
Never seen a non-deterministic compiler though
Exactly this. If you made an LLM that had deterministic code output then I’m all up for saying “AI is a compiler for human language”. But until then AI is most definitely not a compiler.
Setting the temperature parameter to 0.00 makes an LLM deterministic.
No. Floating point arithmetic and ordering of operations won’t make 0.0 deterministic.
Replying to @sunbeam60@feddit.uk
Um… yes. Matrix multiplication is deterministic, there’s nothing non-deterministic about an LLM, unless you artificially add randomness to them, like randomly selecting 1 of the top N ranked tokens.
Replying to @theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
The function is deterministic, agreed. The implementation is almost always not. Hardware floating point addition is not associative. So a GPU kernel that splits a reduction differently (ie interleaving it with anything else, like running your graphics, or sharing your work with other users on the same hardware) will produce different results over different runs even at temperature 0.0.
Determinism is almost always impossible when dealing with floating point on a multi-process/multi-user system.
There are attempts to create batch invariant language models (github.com/…/batch_invariant_ops) but all the major ones are not.
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