Getting a grasp on AI and Machine Learning in cyber security

If you follow technology at all, it's pretty hard to avoid the hearing about "AI" and "machine learning." And it can be almost as difficult to understand what is actually being discussed when these words are used. "The term'AI' is thrown around so readily, and I think for many people, it conjures up the image of'artificial general intelligence,' or some form of self-thinking software," Andy Patel, Senior Researcher at F-Secure's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, told me. "This, combined with massive hype and over-sensationalized or over-exaggerated headlines in the news, and claims from marketers, has caused a general lack of understanding of what machine learning really is right now, and what it is and isn't capable of." Andy attributes this common confusion about the use of data analysis for automated model building known as "machine learning" to a simple fact: most people get their information on the subject from the news.