You say, 'AI'. I say, 'Machine learning'. They say, 'Cybersecurity'... What does it all mean?

Sponsored "Machine learning is eating the world," writes Clarence Chio in Machine Learning and Security with David Freeman, who heads a team of ML engineers charged with detecting and preventing fraud and abuse across LinkedIn. Chio went on to write that in fact: "Cybersecurity is also eating the world," and he has a point. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed, on its second anniversary in October 2018, it had stopped more than 10 attacks per week, primarily from hostile nation states. Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the rise in threats has led to a boom in sales of cybersecurity software: it will be a $248bn (£194bn) industry by 2023, according to Markets and Markets research. Within this, the future for machine learning is bright.