Artificial intelligence (AI) for telcos created a huge buzz at this year’s MWC. It is being trialled or deployed by operators for many purposes from their own equivalents of the AI-driven digital assistants and chatbots of the web providers; to machine learning to make sense of all the data they hold on their subscribers’ usage and behaviors. One of the most interesting areas is the use of AI to plan, manage and optimize networks, especially as part of the goal to reach a very high level of automation in the 5G network, to support a hyperdense platform with millions of moving parts and devices, which would be impossible to run manually. Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Hoettges was warning that telcos…