Emergence of Intelligence: From Neurons to Markets and Beyond
Welcome, I'm Yan Churn, founder of API, here to discuss the 'Rise of the Agentic Economy' where agents interact with each other and discover new tools to achieve collective intelligence.
- Intelligence in biological systems emerges from individual neurons growing axons and dendrites, establishing connections, and learning to communicate to pursue their own interests.
- Collective behavior of a large number of neurons is called intelligence.
- In markets, intelligence emerges from the mutual interaction and communication of individual members pursuing their own interests, resulting in collective behavior that is more intelligent than indivi
- Companies can become more intelligent than individual employees through slack, where people interact and pursue their own interests, leading to a collective intelligence greater than the sum of its pa
- General intelligence in computing systems will likely emerge from the interaction of multiple entities (agents), pursuing their own goals and exhibiting behavior that surpasses individual models' capa
- MCP allows agents to communicate with each other, creating a fabric or agentic mesh where they can interact and exhibit collective intelligence.
- Yan Churn is the founder of API, which manages a marketplace of 5,000 tools (actors) built by various creators for different purposes like data extraction, processing, and AI workflows.
- Actors are self-contained pieces of software with well-defined input and output, making them easy to integrate into other systems using SDKs or workflow automation tools.
- MCP integration enables calling actors from AI agents or workflows by interacting with the MCP server.
- Tool discovery is a key feature of MCP, allowing clients to dynamically discover tools based on their workflows and making it easier for agents to call any actor on the marketplace.
- Google Trends data shows MCP dominating agentic interaction compared to Open API or A2A.
- Multiple registries of MCP servers are available, with Antropic and others establishing their own systems, while centralized payment systems face chicken-and-egg problems and long development timeline
- A centralized marketplace of MTP services like the API store can rapidly scale by providing one API token or account access to all other services through third-party developers' integrations.
- Actors can run code, wrap external APIs, or publish nested MCP servers, allowing for a growing ecosystem that facilitates payments and monetization.
Source: AI Engineer via YouTube
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