> non-deterministic printer.

I interpret non-deterministic here as “an LLM will not produce the same output on the same input.” This is a) not true and b) not actually a problem.

a) LLMs are functions and appearances otherwise are due to how we use them

b) lots of traditional technologies which have none of the problems of LLMs are non-deterministic. E.g., symbolic non-deterministic algorithms.

Non-determinism isn’t the problem with LLMs. The problem is that there is no formal relationship between the input and output.