Google announced it will be using artificial intelligence (AI) and a machine learning (ML) model to automatically update business hours and real-world road information. The goal of these initiatives is to provide users with more up-to-date information about neighborhood changes. Though research into AI began in the 1950s, it didn't begin to make deep learning breakthroughs until relatively recently. This is largely because machine learning progressed quite significantly post-2010. "From my experience, I saw that ML algorithms are no longer the bottlenecks. To be sure, they are far from perfect, and there's a lot of work to be done, but that work is happening at breakneck speed," Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon's AI lab and current CEO of Pinecone, a vector database for similarity search said in a February 22 interview with Search Engine Journal.

Last week, 5G Americas, the wireless trade group, announced the publication of a new whitepaper that focuses on the role 5G will play in wireless vehicle-to-everything communications. The self-driving or autonomous-driving revolution has been coming on strong over the last few years, but this next generation of wireless technology could be the real starting line. The 5G Americas whitepaper is called, "Cellular V2X Communications Towards 5G". If you've been paying attention, we have already entered this space. Driving many new cars, you will notice how they automatically update their operating systems, navigation, radio and dashboard controls while driving.