r/linux • u/MMORPGDev • 20h ago

Development Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req
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u/WaitForItTheMongols 18h ago

Why does it actually matter that it's deterministic?

DOOM is deterministic - anything that needs randomish behavior uses a lookup table with shuffled values. You could easily swap that function in for an LLM's temperature function and it would perform essentially the same while still being deterministic.

I am not convinced that non determinism is a critical thing.

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u/inemsn 18h ago

I am not convinced that non determinism is a critical thing.

For everyone's sake, NEVER give yourself the responsibility of maintaining a system anyone depends on.

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u/WaitForItTheMongols 17h ago

I literally build life support systems for crewed spacecraft.

You missed the point. The non determinism of AI systems is not the problem with them. It is trivial to take a system driven by RNG and instead drive it by a deterministic number generator. And as I said, doing that would not fix the problems with AI, despite it eliminating the non deterministic aspect.

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u/lemontoga 16h ago

I literally build life support systems for crewed spacecraft.

Just as a side note this sounds cool as shit