Cybersecurity is increasingly supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, but humans are still required to interpret the data, federal agency data officers said at a recent AFCEA Bethesda panel. The amount of data generated by AI and machine learning cybersecurity tools is staggering, panelists said. Those automated tools that are tackling repetitive monitoring work are producing bytes by the trillion. Even at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "we're bringing in terabytes of log data per day, and we're not a particularly large agency," said Adrian Monza, USCIS deputy chief information security officer and chief security architect. "You have to have data scientists" to make sense of it, he added.

How is your organization preparing for artificial intelligence (AI)? Ask this question of businesses investing in this field today, and the answer almost always comes down to "data"-- with leaders talking about "data preparations" or "data science talent acquisition." Related: Which Countries Are Ready for AI Adoption? While there would be no AI without data, enterprises that fail to ready the other side of the equation-- people-- don't just stunt their capacity for good AI, they risk sunk investment and jeopardize employee trust, brand backlash or worse. After all, people are the ones building, measuring, consuming and determining the success of AI in enterprise and consumer settings.

Everyone has an opinion about Magic Leap. It's either a revolutionary augmented reality company that could change the face of entertainment, or it's emblematic of everything wrong with the technology industry -- an over-hyped, multi-billion dollar pipe dream. Last week, we saw the first impressions of the company's long-awaited headset, which splashed a bit of reality on the company's hype cycle. Now that we have a better sense of what Magic Leap's $2,295 hardware is capable of, we can take a step back and consider what the company is actually trying to accomplish. In a brief demonstration, I found the Magic Leap One headset much lighter than I expected, even though it looks like a pair of '80s sci-fi goggles.

Sean Gallup / GettySome people are really touched by artificial intelligence. I spend a lot of time covering advances in artificial intelligence. It's one of the big stories of our time -- so much so that the White House has said it will remake our society. On Wednesday, I attended an Intelligence Squared debate at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y that made me see artificial intelligence in a whole new way. Keen, the author of "The Internet Is Not the Answer," and Lanier, author of "Who Owns the Future," teased apart what we're really talking about when we talk about artificial intelligence.