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This sounds to me like a straw man argument. Obviously 2+2 will always give you 4, in any modern LLM, and even just in the Chrome address bar.

Can you offer a real situation where we should expect the LLM to return a deterministic answer and should rightly be concerned that we're getting a stochastic one?

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Y'all are hyper focusing on this example. How about something more vague like FOO obviously being BAR, except sometimes it's BAZ now?

The layman doesn't know the distinction, so they accept this as fact.

I'm not being facetious; I really can't think of a single good example where we need something to be deterministic and then have a reason to be disappointed about AI giving us a stochastic response.

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