deterministic

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Deterministic phenomena are ones which follow a fixed set of physical or logical rules. The same initial state will always lead to the same outcomes. In contrast, stochastic phenomen have some degree of random, probabalistic or nondeterminsitic behaviour.

Used in Chap. 4: page 41; Chap. 16: page 261