"To justify the obscene amounts of money they have raised, AI firms are trying to convince people that their chatbots can do a lot more for you than just write emails and generate studio Ghibli images of your cat. So far, a lot of these promises have either fallen flat or simply never materialised. So the new promise to investors goes: these AI tools will be able to do tasks for us, and then they'll be indispensible to everyone."
"One enabling innovation has made a lot of waves: Model Context Protocol (MCP). In simple terms, MCP is a standard that can be used to provide an AI chatbot with "tools" they can use. Say you want your AI chatbot to be able to access events in your calendar: the best way is to setup an MCP server that can connect to your calendar and provide the chatbot with a selection of tools such as "retrieve events", "create event", "edit event" etc."
AI firms present chatbots as more capable than simple email writing or image generation to justify large investments, but many promises have failed or not materialized. The industry now emphasizes AI agents that interact with other services to perform tasks on users' behalf. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a key enabling standard that equips chatbots with external 'tools' to access services. An MCP server can connect to resources like calendars and expose actions such as retrieving, creating, and editing events. MCP features appear in products like ChatGPT and Claude under names such as connectors or connected apps.
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