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A human brain can't be perfectly reset, the way an AI can.

I don't know if our decision making processes are deterministic or quantum-random. If the former, then if you could reset a human mind and ask the same question, you would necessarily always get the same answer, whatever that happened to be.

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The LLM isn't being perfectly reset. It chooses words randomly; internally it should be slightly different every time. That's the whole point of temperature.

Temperature has nothing to do with internals. Temperature is purely to do with how the logits outputted by the network are transformed into probabilities, which is completely deterministic and not learned. In fact, temperature makes it impossible for LLMs to simulate this kind of probability. As a calibrated 80-20 split at a certain low temperature would be a different split with some other temperature.

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