Latest posts tagged with #ToolUse on Bluesky
New demo: CDE governance middleware for tool-using agents.
Gateway enforces:
0 ✅ pass
1 ⚠️ dry-run+diff
2 ⛔ destructive unless capability lease
Repo: putmanmodel/agent-tool-governance-gateway
Demo: cd gateway_node && npm i && npm run demo
#AI #agents #tooluse #governance #FastAPI
Veronika is a 13-year-old Swiss brown cow living in the mountain village of Nötsch in southern Austria. When she was about two years old, her owners noticed she would sometimes grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body. #animalintelligence #tooluse #cows #CurrentBiology #Smartcow
#NewPaper on adaptive tool use in Veronika the Carinthian #Cow 🐮 🧪
#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehvior #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #ToolUse #CarinthianBlondvieh
🧪Another reason not to eat cows, phys.org/news/2026-01... #cows #cattle #intelligence #Mammals #diet #tooluse
Watch Veronika, a Swiss Brown cow, use a broom as a tool to scratch herself! 🐄✨ Flexible tool use in cattle shows intelligence we often overlook.
▶️ https://www.rfr.bz/b5180f9
#AnimalIntelligence #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #AnimalMinds #ToolUse #Veronicathecow #Rewilding
(2/2) … Tool use offers a stringent test of cognitive flexibility. The flexible #tooluse by a cow invites a reassessment of livestock cognition: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #cow #cognition #ethics #animalrights
8B “ToolOrchestra” trains an RL-orchestrator to route across tools & stronger LLMs—37.1% on HLE vs GPT-5’s 35.1% at big cost savings; open code, model & data. arxiv.org/abs/2511.21689 #AI #LLM #ToolUse
Canadian Gray Wolf learns how to grab crab bait… 🤔🌍
Video and story: www.popsci.com/environment/...
#BehaviouralEcology #ToolUse #Mammals #Ecology
Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tools to Make Fire #Science #Archaeology #Other #AncientHumans #ToolUse #FireMaking
Wolf uses tool in stunning video #Science #Biology #Zoology #AnimalBehavior #ToolUse #WildlifeDocumentary
🐺💡 Wild wolf shows possible tool use! A coastal wolf in BC was filmed pulling a crab trap from the water to eat the bait inside — a fascinating glimpse into wolf intelligence and adaptability.
https://www.rfr.bz/b55b408
#wolves #tooluse #predator #carnivores #canids #ethology #ecology
Alibaba’s new AgentEvolver auto‑creates tasks, boosting tool‑use accuracy by ~30%. The feedback loop and self‑generated curricula could reshape autonomous assistants. Curious? Dive into the details! #AgentEvolver #ToolUse #SyntheticTasks
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Rare Footage of Wolf Stealing Bait May Be First Reported Example of Tool Use in Species #Science #Biology #Zoology #WolfBehavior #ToolUse #AnimalResearch
Potential #ToolUse by #Wolves (#Canis lupus): #CrabTrapPulling in #HaíɫzaqvNation Territory #Haíłzaqv #NationHeiltsuk #KyleArtelle
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Une #louve épate les #scientifiques
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'I Couldn't Believe My Eyes': Wild Wolf Seen Using Tool in Stunning First #Science #Biology #Zoology #WildlifeBehavior #AnimalIntelligence #ToolUse
Did you know that dolphins have used shells to catch fish… and that orcas (the biggest dolphins) have fashion fads, hunt great whites and have given gifts of food to humans?
#dolphin #orca #killerwhale #animal #nature #tooluse #wildlife
This might be the first recorded #tooluse by a wild #wolf - National Geographic
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A wolf raided a crab trap. Was it tool use or just canine cunning? #Science #Biology #Zoology #AnimalBehavior #ToolUse #CanineIntelligence
Screenshot of the first page of a Philosophy of Science journal article titled “Tool Use Beyond Humans” by Gianmaria Dani and Grant Ramsey, published by the Philosophy of Science Association. The authors are affiliated with the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at KU Leuven, Belgium. Abstract: The definition of tool use has long been debated, especially when applied beyond humans. Recent work argues that the phenomena included within tool use are so broad and varied that there is little hope of using the category for scientific generalizations, explanations, and predictions about the evolution, ecology, and psychology of tool users. One response to this argument has been the development of tooling as a replacement for tool use. In this article, we analyze the tool use and tooling frameworks. Identifying advantages and limitations in each, we offer a synthetic approach that suggests promising avenues for future research.
Defining non-human #ToolUse remains contested, complicating scientific generalization & inspiring the concept of “tooling.” Our new 📄 @philscijournal.bsky.social proposes a synthetic framework to advance research on 🔧 use & tooling 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsci #cogsci #evosky #HPbio
Thanks, Mark. That is so cool how the vulture takes the rock and stretches out to full height before dropping it. Smart bird! I didn't realize it was an ostritch egg--they are huge. Puts the birds in better perspective.😊
Thank you so much for explaining.
#birds #vultures #tooluse
Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo lineage #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #ToolUse #FossilRecord #Evolution
Human #nestbuilding all in the name of 🧪
Luckily my teachers 🦧 were the best!
Construction is not as easy as you think - got 5 minutes? Show me what you can do!
#nestbuildingchallenge
#primates
#orangutans
#tooluse
#technology
Survey Highlights Small Language Models for Efficient AI Agents
A new survey shows language models of just 1‑12 billion parameters—such as Phi‑4‑Mini and Qwen‑2.5‑7B—can power reliable AI agents on commodity hardware, slashing token and energy costs. Read more: getnews.me/survey-highlights-small-... #slm #tooluse
Jane Goodall's Legacy: How Chimpanzee Tool Use Redefined Humanity
At 26, Goodall saw a Gombe chimp use a straw blade to fish termites, prompting Leakey to call for redefining “tool” and “man.” Read more: getnews.me/jane-goodalls-legacy-how... #janegoodall #chimpanzee #tooluse
Jane Goodall’s Five Groundbreaking Discoveries About Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall began her Gombe study in July 1960 and by October 1960 recorded the first chimpanzee tool use when male David Greybeard used a stick to fish termites. getnews.me/jane-goodalls-five-groun... #janegoodall #chimpanzee #tooluse
ThinkBrake: Reducing Overthinking in AI Tool Reasoning
ThinkBrake, an inference‑time heuristic, raised tool‑call accuracy on the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard from 85.8% to 94.2% and cut token usage by up to 25%. Read more: getnews.me/thinkbrake-reducing-over... #thinkbrake #tooluse #ai
Online-Optimized RAG Boosts Tool Use and Function Calling
The new Online‑Optimized RAG framework updates retrieval embeddings after each interaction using a simple binary success signal, boosting correct tool selection without altering the language model. Read more: getnews.me/online-optimized-rag-boo... #rag #tooluse
ResT Boosts Tool-Use Performance of Large Language Models
ResT, an entropy‑informed gradient method, boosts tool‑use performance of LLMs, beating prior approaches by up to 8.76% and letting a 4B model exceed GPT‑4o by 4.11% on single‑turn tasks. Read more: getnews.me/rest-boosts-tool-use-per... #rest #tooluse #llm
RandomWorld: Procedural Generation Boosts Tool-Use Agents
RandomWorld, a pipeline for procedurally generating interactive tools, was accepted at EMNLP 2025 and improves tool‑use agents, achieving state‑of‑the‑art NESTFUL scores. Read more: getnews.me/randomworld-procedural-g... #randomworld #tooluse #emnlp2025
CodeGym Boosts Generalizable Tool-Use RL for LLM Agents
CodeGym lets LLM agents train tool‑use via interactive coding tasks; the Qwen2.5‑32B‑Instruct model gained 8.7 points accuracy on the τ‑Bench OOD benchmark. Read more: getnews.me/codegym-boosts-generaliz... #codegym #llm #tooluse
