“That's the experience we have built up over 40 years, to then bring in to the next 40 years” - Cisco’s Chintan Patel on realizing potential of AI and the lessons to learn from the Internet boom

Cloud, networking and internet.

AI development is moving at an unprecedented pace compared to technologies of a similar magnitude.

The internet as a technology took between two to five decades to be realized as a commercial product - depending on who you ask - and some will also argue the building blocks of AI have been around just as long, with the earliest ‘large language models’ emerging from Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA program in 1966 - but again, our definitions for an LLM have changed and it really does depend who you ask.