@gerardsans
@allenholub I think you’re arguing against the wrong problem. The AI industry narrative isn’t about non-deterministic technology. It’s about intelligence. An entire generation of researchers, policymakers, and consumers are being sold stories about AGI and superintelligence, often in overtly anthropomorphic terms. Most of them have never even encountered the concept of non-deterministic systems, despite the fact that probabilistic computation and imperfect models have been part of software engineering for decades. So no, non-determinism was never the crisis. The real problem has been speculation, hype, and a remarkable collapse of intellectual honesty about what these systems are and what they can actually do. That has failed the entire conversation.