Meta AI & UPF’s Toolformer: Enabling Language Models to Teach Themselves to Use External Tools
In the new paper Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools, a team from Meta AI Research and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra proposes Toolformer, a model that self-learns how to choose and use external tools such as search engines, calculators, and translation systems to boost performance on downstream tasks.