IDG Connect Can 'good' machine learning take on global cybercrime?

"Dave Palmer, Director of Technology and ex-Mi5 and GCHQ at Darktrace, would like to offer his opinion on why the machine is ready to fight back on its own," reads the invite I'm sent by Darktrace's PR team. It is pitched as a defence of machine learning from the slightly off kilter perspective of security. There has been an awful lot written about machine learning and automation recently. Much of this takes the angle that the more work machines can do the less jobs will be available for human beings. The emphasis is scare mongering, an angle which often flies in the face of all the big possibilities afforded by machine learning which still, after all, require vast swathes of human assistance.