AI is coming for our wireless networks
Artificial intelligence feels like it’s everywhere these days, and the wireless networks connecting our devices will soon be no exception. Telecom wonks are determining how AI should be built into sprawling cellular networks to better transmit phone calls and allocate resources for the hundreds of data-hungry apps that people use each day. Every decade or so, a new generation of wireless technology arrives for our phones, marked in the transitions from 2G to 3G and so on. We’re on 5G now, which brought the fastest speeds people have seen to date, starting in 2019.