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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer (pbxscience.com)
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[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The function is deterministic, agreed. The implementation is almost always not. Hardware floating point addition is not associative. So a GPU kernel that splits a reduction differently (ie interleaving it with anything else, like running your graphics, or sharing your work with other users on the same hardware) will produce different results over different runs even at temperature 0.0.

Determinism is almost always impossible when dealing with floating point on a multi-process/multi-user system.

There are attempts to create batch invariant language models (https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/batch_invariant_ops) but all the major ones are not.