I feel like we're both in similar minds of opposite sides, so perhaps you can answer me this: How is a deterministic AI any different from a search engine?
In other words, if you and me always get the same results back for the same prompt (definition of determinism,) isn't that just really, really power hungry Google?
I'm not sure pure determinism is actually a desirable goal. I mean, if you ask the best programmer in the world the same question every day, you're likely to eventually get a new answer at some point. But if you ask him, or I ask him, hopefully he gives the same good answer, to us both. In any case, he's not just a power hungry Google, because he can contextualize our question, and understand us when we ask in very obscured ways; maybe without us even understanding what we're actually looking for.
In other words, if you and me always get the same results back for the same prompt (definition of determinism,) isn't that just really, really power hungry Google?