How often does your algorithm learn? And other important questions to ask ML vendors

Fralick chairs McAfee's Analytic Center of Excellence and is responsible for the cybersecurity company's technical analytic strategy that integrates into McAfee consumer and enterprise products. Prior to Intel's divestiture of McAfee, she was Chief Data Scientist in Intel's Internet of Things Group where she developed machine learning and deep learning analytics for over eight different markets. And while broadly applying the term AI makes it easier to market and talk about, for Fralick who has 40 years expertise in the field, each type of model under the AI umbrella has different levels of complexity and intelligence behind them. "As a data scientist and an engineer, I look at AI to be very specific mathematically. I look at deep learning to be very different mathematically from machine learning."