Technology Magazine - USA (2021-02)

(Antfer) #1

George Iskenderian,
Director, Big Data & AI
Bell Inc (Canada)

“ Certain things we do


anticipating problems or
needs might not be very
high priority today but they
will be in a year or two”

the likelihood of a call being spam or
robocalling. We did a trial and it was
very successful. Now the trial is being
expanded so that phone calls that
go through the Bell network will be
exposed to a machine learning algo-
rithm that determines if a call is spam.
And there’s lots of business logic
to make sure there aren’t false posi-
tives. Especially in business critical

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