According to F-Secure Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Matti Aksela, there's a common misconception that'advanced' AI should mimic human intelligence – an assumption Project Blackfin aims to challenge. "People's expectations that'advanced' machine intelligence simply mimics human intelligence is limiting our understanding of what AI can and should do. Instead of building AI to function as though it were human, we can and should be exploring ways to unlock the unique potential of machine intelligence, and how that can augment what people do," said Aksela, Head of F-Secure's Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence. "We created Project Blackfin to help us reach that next level of understanding about what AI can achieve." Project Blackfin is a research initiative conceptualised by Aksela's cross-disciplinary team of artificial intelligence and cyber security researchers, mathematicians, data scientists, machine learning experts, and engineers.

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