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by Guthur 557 days ago
What are you taking about, is not artificially deterministic, it is like that by design. We are fortunate that we can use a logic to encode logic and have it for the most part so the same thing given a fix set of antecedents.

We even want this in the "real" world, when I turn the wheel left on my car I don't want it turn left only when it feels like it, when that happens we rightly classify it as a failure.

We have the tools to build very complex deterministic systems but for the most part we chose not to use them, because they hard or not familiar or whatever other excuse you might come up with.

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The fact is that while the tools exist and may be easy to learn, there’s always that nebulous part called creativity, taste, craftsmanship, expertise, or whatever (like designing good software) that’s hard to acquire. Generative AI is good at giving the illusion you can have that part (by piggybacking on the work of everyone). Which is why people get upset when you shatter that illusion by saying that they still don’t have it.