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:Unitl this theory is explained there will be controversies over the term Non-Deterministic Algorithms. [[User:RoyMWiki|RoyMWiki]] ([[User talk:RoyMWiki|talk]]) 16:08, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
::Isn't that the point of artificial intelligence? We are literally trying to build systems where this is the case. From a practical standpoint there are "non-deterministic" systems out there which are outside of the control of the testing party, sure they could be deterministic if you got super scientific with it but to what extent is that practical vs just saying "its non deterministic". I'm sure we could invest enough to prove everything is in-fact deterministic but it would be quite expensive and impractical and what's the point? Just my 2 cents as an engineer working on systems like this every day. [[Special:Contributions/172.58.255.84|172.58.255.84]] ([[User talk:172.58.255.84|talk]]) 22:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
I have rewritten the article to emphasize the commonality and differences between the different uses of nondeterminism, following Lazard's suggestion "It would probably better to expand it into a detailed explanation in the article." As for the philosophical questions about AI and free will, there may be a connection but I don't think this article is the place for them. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 06:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
:This is much better. Previously, having read this talk page and Hehner (''Logic of Programming'', 1984, page 118), I believed that the word “nondeterminism” is used in computer science with various incompatible meanings. So I thought trying to cover them all in an introduction was a bad idea. But having read this new version of the article, I now understand. Thanks.
:I have a constructive suggestion for consideration. This article could be renamed from "Nondeterministic algorithm" to "Nondeterminism" with just a small change to the first sentence. At present, [[nondeterminism]] is a disambiguation page, and a reader who wants to learn about nondeterminism is presented with a list of 5 articles (including this one). Depending on the order in which they read the articles, they may become confused. They would be better off reading this article first. [[User:JonH|JonH]] ([[User talk:JonH|talk]]) 16:01, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
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