After a brief overview of the AI/ML hype, Javier Antich continued the AI and ML in Networking webinar with the basics of underlying technologies, starting with the machine learning fundamentals.

In May 2021, Javier Antich ran a great webinar explaining the principles of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and how they apply (or not) to networking.

He started with a brief overview of AI/ML hype that should help you understand why there’s a bit of a difference between self-driving cars (not that we got there) and self-driving networks.

I hope you're familiar with Clarke's third law (and leave it to your imagination to explain how it relates to SDN ;). In case you want to look beyond the Machine Learning curtain, you might find the Machine Learning Explained article highly interesting. Spoiler: it all started in 1960s with over 2000 matchboxes.