5 Questions to Ask about Machine Learning

How tired are we of "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" being sprinkled like pixie dust on every product being hawked by vendors? The challenge for cybersecurity professionals is to see through the fog and figure out what's real and what's just marketing hyperbole. Often, marketing hyperbole exceeds the reality. Notoriously, Tesla's Autopilot sensors can be fooled in certain edge conditions, iPhone X can be fooled to unlock a phone by a doppelganger, and Apple's Siri isn't very good at taking directions. Even the winning team in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge lost spectacularly to actual hackers at the DEFCON conference following its win against other machines at Black Hat.