How An Artificial Brain Could Help Us Outsmart Hackers

During the past few years, deep learning has revolutionized nearly every field it has been applied to, resulting in the greatest leap in performance in the history of computer science. With many problems, for which we were used to seeing small, gradual improvements every year, we are now witnessing 20% – 30% improvements within months, due to the application of deep learning. This success has also stirred lots of media and PR buzz, as a result of which, nowadays the terms "artificial intelligence", "machine learning", and "deep learning" are used very widely, and most often inaccurately and confusingly. Artificial Intelligence (AI), a phrase coined by the pioneering computer scientist John McCarthy in the 1950s, is an umbrella term for all the methods and disciplines that result in any form of intelligence exhibited by machines. This includes anything from the 1980s expert systems (basically datasets of hard-coded knowledge), up to most advanced forms of AI in the 2010s.