#WATCH | Delhi | On the arrest of Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Journalist with Sri Lankan newspaper ‘The Island’ S Venkat Narayan says, "I'm surprised by his arrest. There is no corruption involved in what he did. He went to Cuba to attend a G77 summit. Then from Havana, he went to New York to attend the UN General Assembly. On the way back to Colombo, he stopped by in London. His wife, who is a professor of English, normally comes to Jaipur for the Jaipur Literary Festival. A local university invited both of them to a ceremony. From London, he stopped by and drove 200km to Wolverhampton... The expenses involved in Maitre's (Wickremesinghe's wife) travel were taken care of by her. The Sri Lankan government is saying that the 10 other people who went to Wolverhampton with them were government employees, and they used them for a private trip. And then they arrested him. This is not a corruption at all... The security has to be provided to the president, even if he is a private individual... The President of Sri Lanka cannot keep the security back and drive to Wolverhampton..."
there's an AI researcher who is saying that AGI is 'almost here' and we are beginning to see progress milestones toward superintelligence...
and that we will enter the Singularity... this year.
get ready for this wild ride 🧵🔥👇
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AI Agents vs. Agentic AI
Interesting paper summarizing distinctions between AI Agents and Agentic AI.
It also talks about the key ideas, solutions, and the future.
Here are my notes:
What is MCP & why it's a big (huge) deal:
(model context protocol)
TLDR: MCP makes it possible for AI Tools to use external tools. E.g. Chatbot/IDE/AI-Agent can use Gmail/GoogleDrive/WeatherApp etc.
Detailed explanation for both, tech & non tech people (+demos):
1) AI Tools (chatbots, wrappers, agents, code generator, etc) wanna talk to external systems.
In pre-MCP world, one would have to write code to connect AI tool to the external system via API. Which meant every connection had to be pre-coded.
It also meant that every AI tool had to hard code its connection to every other tool. So if there are 1000 AI tools and 1000 external tools, then 1000000 hard-coded connections via API.
2) MCP is a standard protocol. This means that every AI tool has to implement this once, and then it can connect to thousands of external tools via this protocol.
3) The same goes for external tools. They all have to create an MCP server just once, and all AI tools that support MCP can connect to them.
4) It's a huge deal. Imagine 10k AI tools and 10k external tools now all have to implement MCP just once each. So it's 20k implementations. Versus 10k*10k=100M implementations.
5) This whole thing can also run on the cloud or on local computer.
See demos: