AI's impact on network engineering now and in the future

If nothing else, AI continues to climb the technology hype curve. It was impossible to read the news, browse the web, attend a conference, or even watch television without seeing a reference to how AI is making our lives better. Since Alan Turing declared "what we want is a machine that can learn from experience" in a 1947 lecture to the London Mathematical Society, the imaginations of computer scientists and engineers have run wild with visions of a computer that can answer questions on par with a human. Today, almost everyone in business is looking at how to leverage AI, and there is no shortage of vendors looking to capitalize on the trend. Venture Scanner currently tracks more than 2,000 AI startups that have received more than $26 billion in funding.