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0 pointsderrak4d ago0 comments

I think your solution is a good idea. I was just pushing back on why it’s a good idea. Determinism isn’t the crux. The crux is that you’re using a symbolic algorithm with well-defined formal semantics.

I was trying to show that determinism is not the crux by pointing out that there are ways to get a deterministic output from an LLM. And that thought experiment shows that determinism isn’t what’s essential.

And I will disagree about merely narrowing the outputs. If I download a local model and set the temperature to zero and give it the same prompt twice, I will get the same output. Not one of several outputs in a narrow set. LLMs are functions.

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steadeepanda4d ago

Ah okayy, yeah sure you're right. I didn't mean it that way. I mean I know we can get deterministic output from LLM but the issue is that even with that LLMs are trained on large set of data that open a surface for prompt injections and other attacks, and no matter how strong your guardrails are there's still a way to inject a prompt that even if you configure for deterministic output. So where I was going for the "determinism" was that the solution I made sits outside the LLMs it has nothing to do with the internal reasoning, and since "determinism" it ensure and safe and secure action check against the defined rules.

Maybe here I should emphasize on the fact that it's external to any LLM? I don't know.

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steadeepanda4d ago

Maybe here I should emphasize on the fact that it's external to any LLM? I don't know.

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