HN824: That’s Not a Job for an LLM: The Right Way to Apply AI to Network Operations (Sponsored)

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The episode discusses the appropriate applications of AI in network operations and its limitations.

On today’s sponsored Heavy Networking, we get off the AI hype train to talk about how different artificial intelligence techniques usefully impact network operations—and where they aren’t a fit. The various forms of AI represent a set of tools that, like any tool, have use cases, capabilities, and limitations. Our guest is Avi Freedman, CEO ... Read more »

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Host: Packet Pushers

Guest: Avi Freedman

Topics covered

• AI in network operations
• artificial intelligence
• network management
• technology tools
• AI limitations

Keywords

• AI
• network operations
• artificial intelligence techniques
• technology
• network management

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Organizations: Packet Pushers

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