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From an interview with Leonard Kleinrock in Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross (2010):

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Looking a bit further out, I see a networking future that includes the following additional key components. I see intelligent software agents deployed across the network whose function it is to mine data, act on that data, observe trends, and carry out tasks dynamically and adaptively. I see considerably more network traffic generated not so much by humans, but by these embedded devices and these intelligent software agents. I see large collections of self-organizing systems controlling this vast, fast network. I see huge amounts of information flashing across this network instantaneously with this information undergoing enormous processing and filtering. This Internet will essentially be a pervasive global nervous system. I see all these things and more as we move headlong through the twenty-first century.

Note that this article uses A.I. somewhat interchangeably with the concept of recommendation algorithms in general. It's a long read (admittedly, I had not finished reading on submission) but well thought out with a number of really strong quotes, along with citations.

Previously submitted a few months ago without comments; I'd be interested in HN's thoughts, however counter-productive that might be to the thesis [feeding the next LLM scraper].