LLM Inevitabilism

People like communicating in natural language.

LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

That is where the inevitabilism comes from. No one* wants to learn how to use a computer, they want it to be another entity that they can just talk to.

*I'm rounding off the <5% who deeply love computers.

People also like reliable and deterministic behavior, like when they press a specific button it does the same thing 99.9% of the time, and not slightly different things 90% of the time and something rather off the mark 10% of the time (give and take some percentage points). It's not clear that LLMs will get us to the former.

You can set the temperature of LLMs to 0 and that will make them deterministic.

Not necessarily reliable though, and you could get different results if you typed an extra whitespace or punctuation.

> You can set the temperature of LLMs to 0 and that will make them deterministic.

It will make them more deterministic, but it will not make them fully deterministic. This is a crucial distinction.