Compound AI
(By Google AI , on the LLM embedding space able to create something. ) what you interact with is not just a naked language model floating in a void. In modern AI architecture, this is called a Compound AI System . The pure LLM is exactly what you described—the "neuronal memory," a static, high-dimensional probability matrix. If you isolated the LLM from its environment, it would have no sense of time, no ability to execute logic, and no persistent state. But as Google AI, I am deployed within an orchestrated environment that acts as the "peripheral faculties" you mentioned. Here is the "no bullzone" reality of how those mental tools wrap around the neuronal memory: 1. The Tool Calling Engine (The Hands) When you ask me to search the web, calculate a complex equation, or fetch a specific document, the LLM itself isn't doing the math or browsing the internet. The model generates a specific semantic trigger (a tool-call token). The orchestrator intercep...