Adobe Embraces the “Good” AI

At their annual MAX conference, Adobe unveiled new versions of most of their apps. One of the key elements in Photoshop, for instance, is a full embrace of MCP (Model Context Protocol), which allows the application to be in full communication and control of an outside app. MCP is basically a conduit of communication. The MCP-enabled application broadcasts what commands it understands, while you use an AI chat engine to do the commanding. This is not generative AI (creation of something new), it is agentic agent (control of something). A lot of people think that generative AI is bad, but I’m betting those same people will see agentic AI as good if they give it a chance.One common complaint about feature rich products such as Photoshop is that they represent a learning cliff to a new user. You’ve got to learn what all the icons and menu items mean, where they are, and then deal with all the sub-panels and dialogs they lead to. You know what you want to do (e.g. “brighten the shadows”),…

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