How to pronounce toolformer

toolformer is most commonly pronounced "tool for mur" (/ˈtuːlˌfɔːrmər/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Meta AI paper (Schick et al., 2023): seminal "LLM teaches itself to use tools/APIs" work, foundational to tool-calling agents. Portmanteau of "tool" + "-former" (borrowed from Transformer). STRESS: TOOL-for-mer; "-former" rhymes with the end of transFORMER. No creator audio on record, but the construction is unambiguous.

Source: arXiv 2302.04761 — Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (Schick et al., Meta AI)

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