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Why do AI agents need tools?
A language model only writes text from its training, so it can only guess today's weather. With tools it writes a request, the app runs it, and the model reads the answer.
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Transcript
Why do AI agents need tools? On its own, a language model only writes text from what it learned in training. Ask it today's weather, and it can only guess. Now switch the tools on. It writes a request instead. Search the web, run code, check a calendar. The answer comes back, the model reads it, and the guess becomes a lookup. That loop of think, act, check is what makes it an agent. Follow to see how the world works.