[danans]

> if you put the same input to gpt3 multiple times it comes up with different answers. That is nowhere close to a computer executing an algorithm.

It's a non-deterministic algorithm, of which many kinds exist. Producing different answers that are close-ish to correct is in fact what a Monte Carlo algorithm does. Not that you'd use GPT3 as a Monte Carlo algorithm though, but it's not that different.

[tluyben2]

Sure, but if you have something as clear as some of the actual deterministic python code from the article, this doesn’t fly.

Close-ish to correct makes sense for some problems and makes no sense at all for others.