Cisco incubator proposes Internet of Cognition for AI agents

Outshift by Cisco published a whitepaper titled "Scaling out Superintelligence" in January that suggests that new standard network layers will be required for AI agents and humans to work together at scale. It also began designing a distributed infrastructure to support those layers, which it calls the "Internet of Cognition," that helps agents and humans think together with a shared semantic context. In this episode, Guillaume de Saint Marc, vice president of engineering at Outshift, discusses how the project evolved and what's coming next.  

Featuring: Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP of Engineering, Outshift by Cisco 

In today’s episode, we’ll cover… 

• Artificial superintelligence – definition and challenges 

• Proposed OSI model Layers 8 and 9 for agentic AI 

• The Internet of Cognition vs Agntcy and A2A protocols 

And more! 

References:  

• Big vendors back Linux Foundation agentic workflows project 

• How agentic AI is changing work, strategy and competitiveness 

• Is your business ready for an agentic AI team? 

• The ethics that make human-AI agent collaboration work  

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