What is Tool Calling? Connecting LLMs to Your Data

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Download the AI model guide to learn more → https://ibm.biz/BdGide Learn more about Tool Calling → https://ibm.biz/BdGidb Tool Calling is a hidden key to unlocking the full potential of your applications, allowing them to tap into the vast wealth of real-time data and make decisions with unprecedented precision. In this video, Roy Derks takes a look at the limitations of traditional tool calling and how embedded tool calling helps prevent hallucination and provides a more reliable way to retrieve data, all while leveraging the power of Large Language Models and APIs. Explore the what, why, and how of Tool Calling, and what it means for the future of artificial intelligence. AI news moves fast. Sign up for a monthly newsletter for AI updates from IBM → https://ibm.biz/BdGixy

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