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Given that they all use pseudo-random (and not actually random) numbers, they are "deterministic" in the sense that given a fixed seed, they will produce a fixed result...

But perhaps that's not what was meant by deterministic. Something like an understandable process producing an answer rather than a pile of linear algebra?

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I was thinking the exact same thing: if you don’t change the weights, use identical “temperature” etc, the same prompt will yield the same output. Under the hood it’s still deterministic code running on a deterministic machine

This is incorrect. Temperature would need to be zero to get same result.

You’re right - TIL

This is not correct. If the algorithm is deterministic and the random seed is the same, temperature can be anything and get the same result.

Same as using a seed to get the same map generated in Dwarf Fortress.

Thanks for replying, this is what I thought as well.

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