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  • You know the boundaries of a dice roll based one the number of sides of the dice. You will never know the boundaries of the AI.

    With a D20 I know I have a 5% chance of at a roll of 20 and 50% chance to roll over 10. With AI you don’t even know if the data it was trained on was even accurate or if it will hallucinate and speak nonsense.

    You can literally ask an AI how many letter Ts are in the word colonialism and it will tell you two. Now how on earth could anyone have known its probability to say that clearly wrong answer?

    Also each AI session its response to your prompts contribute to the context of the session and small alterations in how the AI speaks build up and change the outcome of a session, thus the AIs own responses effect its probabilities, another thing you cannot account for.



  • A tool has a deterministic outcome, you hammer a nail you know the outcome, you saw a board you know the outcome. No matter how many times you do the same process you know the outcome. Even dice have a boundary of outcomes you can understand.

    You give an AI the same string of prompts multiple times and you will get a different outcome each time. Whether its updates to the model or the fact AI’s own response contributes to its context which small changes will build up over time, there is no way of knowing what the outcome will be, how accurate it is, or how to recreate the same results (especially with multiple prompts involved).

    I wouldn’t call it a tool for that reason but maybe I am nitpicking here.