deterministic

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Deterministic phenomena are events, situations or things that follow a fixed set of physical or logical rules. The same initial state will always lead to the same outcomes. In contrast, stochastic phenomena have some degree of random, probabalistic or nondeterministic behaviour.

Used in Chap. 4: page 38; Chap. 16: page 241