Vint Cerf, widely credited as the father of the internet, will step down next week from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist. This marks the end of more than 20 years at the company.
broke during a panel at the Open Frontier conference, hosted by the Laude Institute. Dave Patterson noted that Cerf was retiring “a week from today”.
Cerf is famous for developing the TCP/IP protocol along with Robert Kahn in the 70s. For this achievement, he has won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Turing Award.
During a panel discussion, Cerf argued that AI agents created by competing firms will eventually need technical protocols rather than natural language to communicate. He believed natural language was not precise enough for AI dealing with complex issues.
His fellow panellists disagreed, arguing that large language model-powered agents could simply speak in natural language. The moderator reminisced about meeting Cerf as a graduate student in the 1970s, describing him as “the best-dressed computer scientist” he had ever seen.
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