Seeing AI to AI: Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Cybersecurity

Have you ever uploaded a photo of you and your friends to Facebook, only to see that Facebook has self-identified your friends in the photo and asked permission to tag them? You likely use other forms of AI throughout your day without even realizing it: through Siri's speech recognition, Google's search engine, and even through spam filters that clean up your email inbox. These are all forms of what we call narrow AI - technology that is set to perform a specific task - as opposed to general AI - which is meant to solve broader and more complex problems. AI is often utilized in cases of classification and forecasting. Classification involves organizing data and assigning labels through pattern matching, while forecasting makes a prediction for the future based on known data.