(I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, f
Of course, an LLM is a probability machine which outputs the most likely next token based on the tokens you give it.
I’m not sure why that doesn’t make it a tool though. The output of this probability machine can be useful if you know what you’re doing.