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According to Carson Sweet of cloud security firm CloudPassage, many companies are asking for machine learning tools to solve problems--even if they don't have a clear idea of what these tools can do. As Mark Terenzoni of threat detection firm Sqrrl explained, AI is like building a brain, but one that is unable to produce deterministic outcomes (ones that will produce a predictable outcome) -- that's why mischief makers were able to manipulate Microsoft's AI chat bot into spewing racist comments. Mahaffey, in response to a question from moderator Jonathan Vanian of Fortune, also clarified the difference between "machine learning" and "deep learning." It turns to be a question of scale: deep learning describes the recent breakthroughs in computer power and cost that makes it possible for machine learning tools to explore millions of parameters.