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LetterRip t1_j8dpgxc wrote

Reply to comment by diviludicrum in [R] [N] Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools - paper by Meta AI Research by radi-cho

There are plenty of examples of tool use in nature that don't require intelligence. For instance ants,

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-022-00855-7

The tool use being demonstrated by toolformer can be purely statistical in nature, no need for intelligence.

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thecodethinker t1_j8dpuru wrote

It is purely statistical, isn’t it?

LLMs are statistical models after all.

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