<div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_lfydt6bk0" alt="image.png" width="471" height="578"><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:40 PM o1bigtenor <<a href="mailto:o1bigtenor@gmail.com">o1bigtenor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:15 AM David 'equinox' Lamparter<br>
<<a href="mailto:equinox@diac24.net" target="_blank">equinox@diac24.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
><br>
> as you are likely well aware, recent developments in Artificial<br>
> Intelligence and Machine Learning have been consistently performing one<br>
> quantum leap after another.<br>
><br>
> To leverage the new possibilities and avenues enabled by these<br>
> developments, and not get left behind, we must join up and integrate<br>
> these new technologies as soon as possible.<br>
><br>
> I would therefore like to present our plans for the immediate future:<br>
><br>
> - all SPF calculation and BGP best-path decision logic is to be replaced<br>
> by a GNN (Graph Neural Network). In preparation of this, significant<br>
> effort has been made to train such a network to produce results<br>
> exceeding those provided by the previous hard-coded logic.<br>
><br>
> - all configuration interfacing is to be performed by Microsoft's Sydney<br>
> LLM (Large Language Model) chatbot. Not only is this the obvious<br>
> choice of vendor considering our SONiC integration, but we also<br>
> believe Sydney to be superior in its capability to handle typical<br>
> network engineers' outbursts of swearing and curses. In fact, we are<br>
> confident that future networks may be configured by simply swearing at<br>
> the hardware until it works.<br>
><br>
> - monitoring and other OAM functions will be handled by clippy, as<br>
> provided in the original version of Office 97. The rationale for this<br>
> is to ease the production of the appropriate curses necessary to<br>
> affect the configuration changes needed to fix the outage at hand.<br>
><br>
> We understand some of you may be concerned about the reliability and<br>
> availability of these new AIs. As an open source project, we will<br>
> obviously not try to confine you to the use of our provided AIs. In<br>
> fact, we will try our best to enable you to train up your own AI<br>
> according to the needs of your particular network! (Cloud compute<br>
> credits not included.)<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am happy to invite you all to join our path to this bright future,<br>
><br>
><br>
> -equi<br>
><br>
><br>
> P.S.: Please note that, despite the obvious connection, YANG schemas and<br>
> configuration data exceed the limits of swearing we were able to train<br>
> Sydney for. I am unsure we will be able to achieve this particular<br>
> feat, but it's not quite time to give up just yet.<br>
><br>
<br>
I do hope that this announcement is date specific - - - - if not H toledo<br>
Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
<br>
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