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Toolformer: Training LLMs To Use Tools

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What Makes a Good API Call?

We have a figure or a table in the paper where we show some of the good and some of the bad API calls that will give you, if you look at that, an idea of how bad those bad API calls are. We don't want to have humans involved at that point because again, that will be super expensive. And also which API call is useful really depends on what you already know and who you are. So for example, as a human, you might know where Joe Biden was born and you'd say, oh, I don't need to call an API at this place. But maybe a much smaller model like GPT-J doesn't know that and needs to call

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