AI Magazine July 2024 | Page 20

“ In this day and age , you can ’ t really have a conversation without talking about AI ”

AI makes it simpler and faster to do , but the basic logic hasn ’ t really changed . Any company that says “ I ’ m going to produce an AI product that can change your life ” is AI-washing .
Secondly , the more datasets you connect together , the value grows exponentially . If you just have data from your APs or your switches , it ’ s valuable . But now if I have data that I can connect with it from my end devices , it is now a hundred times more valuable . If I can add to that the behavioural patterns of my applications and users , now I ’ m 10,000 times more valuable , because the value grows exponentially .
That ’ s why [ Extreme ’ s ] belief in AI and our strategy is : Number one , ecosystembased . Number two , platform-based , which is really connecting all of this data . I think that ’ s the future of AI .
Q . HOW DOES EXTREME NETWORKS WORK THROUGH CHALLENGES WITH ITS CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS ? DO YOU HAVE ANY EXAMPLES OF HOW YOU MAINTAIN TRUST ?

» Trust and AI are intricately tied . The continued use of AI is going to depend upon how humans are going to trust . There ’ s a very unique interplay between technology and humans . Technology is moving faster and faster , but culture moves very slowly . Because of that disconnect , trust is what gets lost . So that is an issue .

We solve that by breaking down the problem set into something that humans
20 July 2024