About whether LLMs just need to connect to specialized tools that already beat humans.
Has this happened?
Yes 34 (32%)Not sure 40 (37%)No 33 (31%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About whether LLMs just need to connect to specialized tools that already beat humans.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Yeah, but you know that manually telling the LLM to operate other custom tools is not going to be a long-term solution. And if an LLM could design, create, and operate a separate model, and then return/translate its results to you, that would be huge, but it also seems far away.
But I'm ignorant here. Can anyone with a better background of SOTA ML tell me if this is being pursued, and if so, how far away it is? (And if not, what are the arguments against it, or what other approaches might deliver similar capacities?)