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Can you even use AI for anything fairly recent? It's been a while but asking for anything that is supposed to happen on the same day seems useless.
AIs can query the web and parse the results, so it is possible for Claude to understand the question, search the web for movie schedule of a cinema, parse the website and give an accurate answer. It's also very possible for it to do it incorrectly or just pretend that it did that and give you a random time instead so that you are happy.
I can't imagine trusting an AI with something like this, where it's so easy to just check it yourself
Going even further, we had this capability already, for example the original Google Assistant was able to do that task just fine.
Yet Gemini similarly seems to struggle with this on mobile.
In the same example, I don't understand why, that when the agent protocol started happening they didn't offer the original Google Assistant pathway as an agent of mcp for Gemini to call and add its response to the context.
I recently saw some fireworks on the beach and asked if there was something just to see what happened. It found the event in the internet and told as a possibly.
Nah they can get context and summarize web pages as they presently are. Not all do, and I'm not up to date on what ones do, but the expectation was Claude would find their schedule on their website online, would summarize it, and use that summary to answer the question and any followup ones that would've occurred.
Yeah, anything not taken into training yet will not be available for the bot.
AI can definitely have web access enabled and use it all it likes, per whichever system’s choices.