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Saturday 30 March 2019
To imagine the '5G' future, revisit our recent wireless past

By TALI ARBEL worked inconsistently, or
AP Technology Writer only under the best con-
NEW YORK (AP) — The mo- ditions," said Nikki Palmer,
bile industry is cranking up head of product develop-
its hype machine for sleek ment for Verizon, the larg-
new "5G" networks that it est U.S. mobile carrier. "You
says will make your phone would have got failures,
and everything else faster you would have got retries,
and wonderful. If you be- you would have got the
lieve the marketing. equivalent of stalling on the
But no one can really say network."
how 5G will change your While 4G brought on a
life; many of the apps and communications revolu-
services that will exploit its tion and spawned startups
speed haven't been cre- now worth billions , even it
ated yet. Look back at the wasn't all it was hyped up
last big wireless upgrade, to be.
though, and you can get a See AT&T CEO Ran-
sense of how profound that dall Stephenson in March
change might be. 2011, talking about 4G and
Apple launched the iPhone cloud computing in an at-
in 2007, and it quickly be- In this May 22, 2017, file photo Nick Blase with True North Management Services climbs down from tempt to win support for
come obvious that the a cellular phone town after performing maintenance as it is silhouetted against the sky in High a proposed acquisition of
era's 3G wireless networks Ridge, Mo. rival T-Mobile: "Very soon
couldn't handle millions of Associated Press we expect every business
people uploading pho- process, we expect every
tos of their kid's playdate storage, Netflix streaming. do, too. Mobile video, in- ater. Our attention spans system in your home and in
to Facebook or obsessing Or, for instance, that ride cluding ones created by were whipsawed by con- your car, every appliance,
over "Words with Friends." you got home from the bar. ordinary people, makes up stant pings and constant all your entertainment con-
Not to mention managing Without 4G, there would be 60 percent of all data traf- hot fresh "content." tent, your work, all of your
their finances, health care no Uber or Lyft, which need fic globally, according to To watch Netflix in high- personal data, everything is
and shopping for every- connections fast and strong telecom-equipment maker definition video, you need going to be wirelessly con-
thing from shoes to homes. enough to call a driver on a Ericsson. speed of at least 5 mega- nected."
"When the smartphone moment's notice, show cus- "Video was near-impossible bits per second; that's Not quite yet. Smart homes
came out it brought the tomers where their driver is to use effectively on 3G," where Verizon's 4G network are not mainstream, and
3G network to its knees," and give the companies said Dan Hays, a mobile download speed range wireless business processes
Stanford engineering pro- the ability to track drivers in networks expert at consul- started in its early days. (Up- are a lot of what's exciting
fessor Andrea Goldsmith real-time. That's not some- tancy PwC. "4G made mo- load was and remains slow- the wireless industry about
said. "The success of smart- thing 3G could handle. bile video a reality." er, a frustration for anyone 5G.
phones was because of Today, about 80 percent Its influence has marked who has ever tried to send Hays remembers talking
4G." of U.S. adults have a smart- our world. Citizens filmed a video from a crowd.) about the possibilities 4G
4G speeds, the ones we're phone , according to Pew protests, police violence Trying to stream a live vid- would create for virtual
used to today, made pos- Research Center, while in- and revolutions on their eo over Facebook, had and augmented reality.
sible many of the things we dustry group GSMA says phones. TV and movies dis- this feature even existed in Those, of course, have yet
now take for granted on our 60 percent of the world's connected from the living- the 3G era, "wouldn't have to materialize. Just wait 'til
phones — Instagram, cloud 5 billion cellphones users room set and movie the- worked, or it would have next G.q
Artificial intelligence pioneers win tech's 'Nobel Prize'

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE monly known as "artificial one of the fastest-growing
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — intelligence," or AI. areas in all of science and
Computers have become Their insights and persis- one of the most talked-
so smart during the past tence were rewarded about topics in society,"
20 years that people don't Wednesday with the Turing said Cherri Pancake, presi-
think twice about chat- Award, an honor that has dent of the Association for
ting with digital assistants become known as tech- Computing Machinery, the
like Alexa and Siri or seeing nology industry's version of group behind the Turing
their friends automatically the Nobel Prize. It comes Award.
tagged in Facebook pic- with a $1 million prize fund- Although they have known
tures. ed by Google, a company each other for than 30
But making those quantum where AI has become part years, Bengio, Hinton and
leaps from science fiction of its DNA. LeCun have mostly worked
to reality required hard The award marks the latest separately on technology
work from computer sci- recognition of the instru- known as neural networks.
entists like Yoshua Bengio, mental role that artificial in- These are the electronic
Geoffrey Hinton and Yann telligence will likely play in engines that power tasks
LeCun. The trio tapped redefining the relationship such as facial and speech
This undated photo provided by Mila shows Yoshua Bengio, a into their own brainpower between humanity and recognition, areas where
professor at the University of Montreal and scientific director at to make it possible for ma- technology in the decades computers have made
the Artificial Intelligence Institute in Quebec. chines to learn like humans, ahead. enormous strides over the
Associated Press a breakthrough now com- "Artificial intelligence is now past decade. q