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by int_19h 1204 days ago
Yes. And if you give it a database schema, it can answer free-form questions about the data in it by generating SQL queries, so long as you wire up the results (or just manually copy/paste them). Although it does hallucinate fields in tables sometimes - but if your wiring reports errors in a readable way, it will usually self-correct.

I think the most interesting potential development of this concept would be to give it the ability to spawn child instances to process subtasks (such that each subtask gets its own token window!) and produce intermediate results that it would that combine. It can be done manually (copy/paste) with a lot of handholding; the trick is to come up with a way to automate it, such that it's clear which part of the output is a request to spawn a submodel + its prompt, and the result is also communicated in some way that's clear to the model.