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Toolformer

Toolformer

Why it matters

Learns on its own, through self-supervised learning, when to call APIs and with what arguments — the route of building tool use into the weights

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

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