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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tbh them being nondeterministic is a big part of why they're so unreliable. Like, maybe it'll work fine for 9/10 people, but then there will be that one person whose home directory gets wiped for whatever reason. Or maybe it'll do math right for those nine people, but then for that one person it'll say 1 + 1 = 11.

You're basically gambling if you don't verify the answers.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really... Determinism would only help if you could copy someone else's prompt and history 100%, which you generally would not be able to.

Because maybe it always gets 1+1 correct, but fails 1+2.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm referring to nondeterminism for the same prompt, since unless you start a session from scratch, it's unlikely you'll have the same history. If you give it a prompt, then depending on what you've told it previously, it may blow up in your face.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 23 hours ago

Determinism for the same prompt means you can't give it context through a conversation, which vastly shrinks its utility.

That said, even that form of determinism can be unreliable: the example of arithmetic still works; you could have it completely deterministic, but if it only performs correctly on 80% of arithmetic problems, it's still unreliable.