That is different, it's a code interpreter where the model can run code and see the outputs. It's not a different way of doing tool calls

This was integrated in gpt4 2 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14sqcg8/anyone_els...

And even before this work, there was "PAL: Program-aided Language Models" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10435, https://reasonwithpal.com/).

Afaik PaLM (Google's OG big models) tried this trick, but it didn't work for them. I think it's because PaL used descriptive inline comments + meaningful variable names. Compare the following:

```python

# calculate the remaining apples

apples_left = apples_bought - apples_eaten

```

vs.

```python

x = y - z

```

We have ablations in https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10435 showing that both are indeed useful (see "Crafting prompts for PAL").

You can do this at grok.com.

There is a "start thread" option below every conversation. You can also read the responses aloud (helpful if you want to do something async).

Oh cool! Finally!!!

Unfortunately, it looks to only support single subthreads. But my questions have questions sometimes. I want to subthread conversations to arbitrary depth. If they can subconvo once, they can do it arbitrarily.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Yeah, that's the first formal reference I remember as well (although, BERT is probably the first thing NLP folks will think of after reading about diffusion).

I collected a few other text-diffusion early references here about 3 years ago: https://github.com/madaan/minimal-text-diffusion?tab=readme-....

From last neurips https://automix-llm.github.io/automix/

The demo was done live (as was everything else).

Looks pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogSbMD6EcY

Although, it seems it's only going to cover the first book (which makes sense, given how difficult the other two would be to film). The real magic for me was in book 3. It was inspiring to see someone think so far out, so boldly.

> It was inspiring to see someone think so far out, so boldly.

It's not that unusual in SciFi (and even some Fantasy).

I didn't like the way this series did it. I personally prefer Asimov's take in The Last Question. It's all well and good to ask the elderly to commit mutual suicide for the sake of the yet-to-be-born, but assuredly there would have been newborn young species (not to mention the youth of old species) even in an old universe. Sorry youngins, to Moloch you go!

Welcome to one of the most hated parts of the academia.

The joke is that he doesn't own any OpenAI shares.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-...