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		klabb3 on Jan 7, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I program with LLMs Semantics. It may be able to get deterministic but it’s unstable wrt unrelated changes in the training data, no? If I add a page about sausages to a search index, the results for ”ski jacket” will be unaffected. In a practical sense, LLMs are non-deterministic. I mean, ChatGPT even has a ”regenerate” button to expose this ”turbulence” as a feature.

User23 on Jan 7, 2025 [–]

Hence n-grams rather than documents.

Also what's with using "semantics" as a dismissal when the technology we're talking about is the most semantically relevant search ever made.

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