Don't trust vendors' marketing materials to help you find a workable, accurate definition. "It's almost criminal, the use of these terms by the vendors today," says Kris Lovejoy, CEO of security firm BluVector. "Pretty much anybody that has analytics embedded in their system is calling it a form of AI. It's confusing the marketplace, and frankly, I think it's incredibly unfair to the consumer." So what exactly is artificial intelligence?

Don't trust vendors' marketing materials to help you find a workable, accurate definition. "It's almost criminal, the use of these terms by the vendors today," says Kris Lovejoy, CEO of security firm …