In reply to John Garrett.

IMO, AI can be defined as using machine learning to support automated decision making for maximizing the benefit of the network to the business. Today we use the data and machine learning to uncover insights and to provide recommendations. We can also fully automate many of the remediation tasks resulting from these recommendations, such as keeping configurations compliant..(Anyone heard of intent base networking?)

So to answer your question about the model - when we can go from analytics engine to upstream action by skipping (or just notifying) the User Interface - we are providing AI.