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AI Explained: How AI Uses Tools - ReAct Loop & Tool Use Demystified (Part 25)

Feeling overwhelmed by APIs and AI Tool Integration? In this video, we break it down into simple pieces.

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Feeling overwhelmed by APIs and AI Tool Integration? In this video, we break it down into simple pieces. We show you exactly how an AI brain knows how to use a web browser, a calculator, or a database.

What’s in the video (8m 40s)

  • 0:00 — Introduction: How AI Uses Tools (ReAct Loop & Tool Use)?
  • 0:41 — Chapter 1 - Learning to Act
  • 1:19 — What are ReAct Loop & Tool Use?
  • 2:30 — ReAct Loop vs Plan-and-Solve
  • 3:03 — Chapter 2 - Anatomy of an AI Tool
  • 3:37 — Tool Use Cycle
  • 4:04 — Dynamic Manifest - High Precision Tools
  • 4:33 — Chapter 3 - Protocols, Orchestration & The Future
  • 4:40 — What is Model Context Protocol(MCP)?
  • 5:42 — MCP 2.0 Upgrades
  • 6:36 — What is Inference-Time Scaling(or Test-Time Scaling)?
  • 7:07 — What is Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol?
  • 7:33 — Model Context Protocol(MCP) vs Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol

Resources

For more in this series, visit the #ai tag page or jump to the channel uploads list for everything else.

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