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How Language Models Use Tools and the Path to Agents | RLHF & Post-Training Course, Lecture 11
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37:47Now PlayingAll things tool-use! Why we give LLMs tools, why it started with "function calling", how we got to relying on harnesses, why tool-use RL is so hard, and other history of post-training/LLMs! Lecture 11, only 2 more lectures after this (and maybe a couple more videos).
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