Machine Learning and AI Have Roots in Neural Networks

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are surging in popularity as these technologies become the foundation for making networks smarter, faster, and more intuitive. Today machine learning and AI are being touted as key elements to making the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G a success. In fact at the recent Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Spain, carriers like SK Telecom and Reliance talked about using machine learning by feeding it with analytics from network monitoring. Plus, big name companies like IBM are incorporating AI into well-known projects like Watson, which is being used for everything from security to IoT to the cloud. They are based upon deep learning neural networks, a technology first conceived more than 70 years ago.