The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology in our industry is palpable. Advances in technology and innovations across industry have driven a fever pitch of intensity and urgency to adopt and leverage innovations in this field. However, it is difficult to decipher and sift through the hype with most products and platforms advertising AI as part of their offerings.
This paper will serve as a practical primer for anyone interested in understanding how common AI technologies work and how to best leverage them in the telecommunications industry. Focus will be on avoiding pitfalls and taking the steps to quickly evaluate and rapidly prototype AI optimization opportunities in the telecommunications space. The concepts here present a mindset change on how to approach this exciting technology. The process of developing AI solutions involves several crucial steps: defining the problem space, curating the required data, architecting the solution, training the model, and rapidly prototyping the opportunity.