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Toolformer demonstrates language-model API tool use

Toolformer showed a language model learning when and how to call external tools such as calculators, search and translation APIs.

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Toolformer demonstrates language-model API tool use
evidenced_by · tool_use_research

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Research and bounded products combined reasoning, API/tool use, external information and goal-directed action more explicitly, while still falling short of persistent general-purpose autonomous agents.
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Tool use moved from research-only evidence toward constrained product deployment through ChatGPT plugins, including browsing, code execution and third-party service interaction.
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