• FishFace@piefed.social
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    28 days ago

    Non-deterministic software is fine and we’ve been using it for ages. It’s usable when:

    • The base error rate is low enough
    • Accuracy is not important
    • The outcome is cheap to verify by some other means

    That rules out several applications of current LLMs, but it rules in several others.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      27 days ago

      If I have to verify the output of an AI then unless I can do the verification in 30 seconds but work would somehow take me hours then it’s not useful. I can’t think of many scenarios in which verification is fast but the work itself is slow.