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TheRealMichaelScoot t1_j8c17ym wrote

This is a bs paper. Simply calling APIs

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currentscurrents t1_j8c51f0 wrote

...and getting radically improved performance across several important tasks because of calling those APIs.

Plus, calling APIs is very important for integration into real systems because they can trigger real-world actions. Imagine a Siri that calls a bunch of different APIs based on complex instructions you give it.

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sloganking t1_j8cculc wrote

It's not just calling APIs. This model is independently teaching itself how to use new APIs and when to use them. The process is pretty much the same for any API, and doesn't require much extra effort by the programmer to add a new one.

This paper also states it is one of the first to have models learn to use APIs in an unsupervised way, meaning they teach themselves instead of relying on a ton of human annotated data.

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tetelestia_ t1_j8cde0k wrote

And if we can extend this to creating synthetic training data with a set of known APIs, this could be a big step forward to indexing external information

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