> A coworker of mine told me that GPT’s LLM can use Excel files. No, it can’t. But the tools they plugged into it can. It's a bit like saying that a human can'

> A coworker of mine told me that GPT’s LLM can use Excel files. No, it can’t. But the tools they plugged into it can. It's a bit like saying that a human can't use Excel files, but when given a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to a computer running Excel, it can. But then obviously the "Excel usage" competency is in the human; not in the tools, and a cat for example cannot use Excel proficiently however many training hours it gets and however good the keyboard is. Taking it back to the LLMs, it is clear to me that some modern LLMs like the one running ChatGPT can be integrated with tools in a way that makes them somewhat proficient with Excel, while other simpler LLMs cannot, regardless of the tools.