MCP Connectors: Talk to Your Data vs. Open Data
The plugin ecosystem has been rebuilt on the Model Context Protocol, and two integration patterns now dominate: "talk to your data," where agents query your own internal systems, and connectors to public and open data. The same protocol serves both — the difference is who owns the data. But when the IMF tested leading chatbots on its own public statistics, they returned the correct figure only 17 to 34 percent of the time. A UNICEF benchmark across 133,000+ development-indicator questions found average accuracy of 21.2 percent. This episode works through what that gap actually is: not a model…
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