Claim record · edition 1.0.0

si-009Established result

Language models can be trained or prompted to invoke external tools and incorporate returned results.

Both learned tool invocation and interleaved reason-act prompting are documented mechanisms.

Limits of this claim

Tool access is a property of the deployed system, not the model. Comparisons that vary tool access are not model comparisons.

Supporting source records · 2

primary paperContent verified

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

Schick et al. · 2023

Learned external tool invocation from the model side.

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primary paperContent verified

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

Yao et al. · 2022

The interleaved reason-and-act pattern underlying most agent loops.

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