tool use
4 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Dr. Percy Liang · across every show →
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Apr 25, 2023 positive
Liang: Language models should use calculators instead of computing internally
“There are cases where you want to just map natural language into say people call it tool use. Like you ask some question that reverse calculation, you should just use a calculator rather than trying to sort of quote unquote do it in the transformers head.”
May 1, 2025 positive
Mitchell: AI offloads tasks lacking comparative advantage to external tools
“I think like part of this is you can just allocate compute a lot more efficiently because you can defer stuff that the model doesn't have comparative advantage to doing to a tool that is like really well suited to doing that thing.”
May 1, 2025 positive
McKinzie: Tools prevent reasoning models from degrading during test-time compute
“We've in the past for our reasoning models talked a lot about test time scaling, and I think for a lot of problems you know, without tools, test time scaling might occasionally work and, but at some point the model is just kind of ranting in its internal chain…”