Artificial intelligence · 2022
LLM tool use
Language models learn to call search, calculators and code, then read the results.
The ReAct paper (October 2022) interleaved reasoning with actions; Meta's Toolformer, ChatGPT plugins and OpenAI's function calling followed in 2023. Tool use turned text predictors into agents that act on the world through APIs.
What it built on 2
What it led to 4
Related measurements
The dashed line marks when it first worked.
Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)
ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)