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Gemini doesn't share Google search's AI advice on pizza cheese solutions? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md#request-reproducible-outputs

LLMs are prompted with a seed. If you change the seed you get a different answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Addendum:

The docs say

For reproducible outputs, set temperature to 0 and seed to a number:

But what they should say is

For reproducible outputs, set temperature to 0 or seed to a number:

Easy mistake to make

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I appreciate the constructive comment.

Unfortunately the API docs are incomplete (insert obi wan meme here). The seed value is both optional and irrelevant when setting the temperature to 0. I just tested it.