Last week, Wireless Watch joined the UK Telecoms Innovation Network’s (UKTIN) AI conference in London to sort through the furor surrounding artificial intelligence and discuss the tangible security, energy, and commercial implications for wireless networks. It was time to find out whether AI models are a horribly complex exercise for marginal gains, or an imminent necessity to manage increasingly complex networks. The main panel of the event was led with great humor and enthusiasm by Professor Dimitra Simeonidou from the University of Bristol. Simeonidou is the Director of the Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol and the lead of the £12 million REASON research project, part of the UK government’s Open Networks Research and Development Fund. Simeonidou was…