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    6 months ago

    I challenge you to recreate the Mona Lisa.

    My point is that these models are so complex that they’re closer to art than anything reproduce

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      6 months ago

      I don’t see your point? What is the “source” for Mona Lisa I would use? For LLMs I could reproduce them given the original inputs.

      Creating those inputs may be an art, but so could any piece of code. No one claims that code being elegant disqualifies it from being open source.

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        6 months ago

        Are you sure that you can reproduce the model, given the same inputs? Reproducibility is a difficult property to achieve. I wouldn’t think LLMs are reproduce.

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          In theory, if you have the inputs, you have reproducible outputs, modulo perhaps some small deviations due to non-deterministic parallelism. But if those effects are large enough to make your model perform differently you already have big issues, no different than if a piece of software performs differently each time it is compiled.