alt Hacker News>LLMs using code to answer questions is nothing new, it's why the "how many Rs in strawberry" question doesn't trip them up anymore, because they can write a few lines of Python to answer it, run that, and return the answer.
False. It has nothing to do with tool use but just reasoning.
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FrustratedMonky • yesterday at 3:10 PM
What is reasoning?
I also can not multiply large numbers without a paper and pencil, and following an algorithm learned in school.
That is the same as an LLM running some python, is the same as me following instructions to perform multiplication.
It's so easy to google this and find that they all do exactly this.
Gemini: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/code-execution
ChatGPT: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8437071-data-analysis-wi...
Claude: https://claude.com/blog/analysis-tool
Reasoning only gets you so far, even humans write code or use spreadsheets, calculators, etc, to get their answers to problems.