Reproducibility and the Breath of Language: What AI’s Determinism Reveals About Aliveness
The Hype Around Reproducibility — But What Is AI For? Before we celebrate “defeating nondeterminism,” we should pause and ask a simpler, more foundational question: what is AI’s function in the first place? Reproducibility is only a virtue relative to a purpose. A calculator must be reproducible. A colleague must not be. An instrument in a lab must return…