Equation 7 · From Autocomplete to Delegation: The Technical History Behind OpenAI Codex
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where the model policy chooses an action, environment E executes it against state , and the result becomes the next observation. This closes a feedback loop absent from one-shot completion.
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- [8] ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models ↗
- [9] Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools ↗
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