Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

While Hollywood envisions Artificial Intelligence as one day gaining self-consciousness and starting to wipe out humanity, we're currently still struggling with teaching it how to take a joke. Today's machine learning algorithms are all around us. Machine learning is considered to play a vital role in development of artificial intelligence, but it currently still requires human intervention and tweaking. The merging of man and algorithms allows us to make sense of the terabytes of seemingly unrelated data that's constantly pouring into the internet on a daily basis. Machine learning in the security industry has also proven to be very effective at finding new or unknown malware, based on the features the new malware shares with previously known threats. However, you need to train machine learning algorithms with a dataset that's comprised of known malware samples.