Will black box AI fly?Andy Kelly on Unsplash enhanced by CogWorld With current advances in technology and Artificial Intelligence, most major companies are going to great lengths to attract the right talent and showcase their expertise in the field. Today having a futurist among its top rank management is not an eccentric fad, but a competitive necessity. Google is well-known for its collaboration with Ray Kurzweil. While we all know about the AI conquests of IBM, Amazon and Google, less is being revealed about machine learning projects in the "traditional" industry of telecom operators. Coming from a telecommunications background, I thought the balance should be restored.