It's a Marketing Mess! Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence is a thing. No matter where you turn, technology companies are selling AI as the secret sauce in their cybersecurity platforms, their decision support systems, their network analytics tools, even their email marketing software. You name it, it's got "AI Inside." You'll see that acronym AI often, as companies refer to artificial intelligence that way – which in itself is pretty vague, as you'd expect for a term that's been bandied about for many decades and has a great number of representative branches. In our current context, AI generally refers to hardware or software that thinks, learns, and cognitively processes data the same way a human would, although presumably faster and more accurately: Think about Commander Data from Star Trek as a human-shaped role model for what AI could become someday.