I have been using Particle app for all my news now. My Problems with newspapers or any published media is that they push opinion as news and to me news is news(without any lean towards anything)
Langchain is one of many frameworks that implement the "tool calling" pattern, where LLM applications can request that a tool is run (eg "search the web for X" or "execute this Python code") and see the result of that.
MCP is a standard for describing and exposing tools to LLM applications.
It's a spec for how external info can get into a language model's context window. Part of that is tool calling, but there's also templated input, cancellation, progress tracking, recursive generation sampling, statefulness of tool servers, etc.
There's a MCP "server" spec for writing code that exposes tool definitions and the ability to execute them, and an MCP "client" spec for building systems that can make use of those servers.
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> Tool-Calling - If you’re like me, when you first saw MCP you were wondering “isn’t that just tool-calling?”...
Not everyone uses langchain nor does langchain cover some of the lower level aspects of actually connecting things up. MCP just helps standardize some of those details so any assistant/integration combo is compatible.
The problem for Google is, people who are not familiar with tech has started seeing AI as a different product than google(search)!
Instead of searching (google) , let me ask AI( chatgpts) and google is on the losing side of this perception war. This cannot be solved that quickly .
Especially with what google has done in the AI space(to a layman) it was Bard(anyone remembers) and then it was something and then its Gemini now.
what is the differentiator now? is google offering more free stuff than its peers? a layman doesnt care about whether it succeeds in solving a math problem or not!
As long as people think these two are separate things(ai v search) , google is gonna have a problem
> The problem for Google is, people who are not familiar with tech has started seeing AI as a different product than google(search)!
I don't know if that's a problem. If I was Google I'd like to keep search mostly as is (perhaps throw in some AI summary, but mostly as is) so I can keep putting links to ads.
I still use Google; if I want to buy new running shoes, book a flight etc I don't start talking to ChatGPT about it, I just Google; I'm sure there are a couple billion more people like me who'll keep doing it. It's more than just habit, A.I is perceived as not up to date so I see absolutely no reason to go to an LLM for shoes and flights.
But I have many other questions (mostly programming, stock analysis etc) I go to the A.I for. I think for Google, Search will still make a lot of money because the buying shoes thing is worth more for advertisers than asking some vague question about my codebase.
Contrary to the popular belief, outside of the core tech spectrum, i dont think a normal user gives a damn about Siri, let alone use it regularly to notice any difference (it still sets timers ) , as long as the iPhone does its job Tim cooks job is safe. But to your point, if its deteriorates further, then yeah
