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Ask HN: Why does OpenAI intentionally keep its randomness/seed value a secret?

1 pointsby kappuchinoabout 2 years ago
So any LLM works with an input&#x2F;prompt, parameters (like the so-called temperature) and randomness aka seed for its &quot;magic&quot; decision making based on a modell. Think of the randomness like the magic number for minecraft maps: It can create repeatably the same world just from one number and the same version. Or the seed number in stable diffusion: Same prompt, same seed, same modell = always the same result.<p>But not for GPT3, ChatGPT and GPT4. I wonder why.<p>I&#x27;m quite mad that this random seed is not presented to be preserved or available as an input. It would speed up scientific exploration, produce differen&#x2F;better fidelity tests.

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