Machine Leaning Getting More Like Human Learning

Machine learning surveillance techniques used to spot unfair or collusive activity at firms have advanced far beyond searching lists for risky words, and now make myriad connections based on a wide range of behavior and interactions. Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning, which provides advanced compliance tools of this sort, said to trick the surveillance software would mean avoiding every system -- email, chat rooms etc. -- and not doing anything behaviorally that would create a signal either. "If you think about it, it's very hard to be someone that you are not all the time consistently. We have a word for those people -- they are called sociopaths," Estes said. Digital Reasoning is a cognitive computing company focused on applications that leverage human communication data.