[ih] History of AI and Internet

[Sivan]

Thank you Brian and Andrew.


 Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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On Thu, 25 Jun, 2026, 18:18 Andrew G. Malis, <agmalis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brian et al,
>
> You're right that progress is very fast. I just saw this article yesterday about
> KDDI and Samsung using a mobile network digital twin to test AI-based
> network optimization and autonomous operation without disrupting the
> production network.
>
>
> https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/nvidia-and-samsung-to-power-6g-ready-digital-twin-for-japan-telecom-giant/
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 8:37 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 25-Jun-26 10:22, Sivan via Internet-history wrote:
>> > Dear Jack Haverty,
>> >
>> > Your question "For example, when there are problems in today's Internet,
>> > are AI techniques and tools used to diagnose and repair them?   What's
>> the
>> > History of such things?" is immensely interesting. Concerns about A.I.
>> > momentarily set aside, are there initiatives underway to positively use
>> > A.I. tools to "diagnose and repair" problems in the Internet? For
>> example,
>> > using A.I. to scan for malware, bots, phishing and other forms of
>> technical
>> > and non-technical Abuse? Or using A.I. to scan and detect barriers to
>> > network protocols such as vpns? Or even using A.I. to scan and detect
>> > non-human content and other forms of Abuse?
>>
>> I can't imagine that the answer to any of those questions is "No".
>> I wouldn't have said that a year ago, but progress is very fast.
>>
>> Of course, operators will see this as a competitive advantage and may
>> choose not to publicise such AI deployments. But there is a lot of
>> work in progress on agent-to-agent communication.
>>
>> If this is history, it's history in progress.
>>
>> Regards/Ngā mihi
>>     Brian Carpenter
>>
>>
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