Artificial intelligence (AI) burst onto the scene like a superhero trying out his first cape, accompanied by a loud and sustained PR ruckus. But the cybersecurity crowd's oohs and ahs soon began to fade into ums and uhs as the scoreboard ticked off more fails than wins for AI.
Don't expect any sympathy from the spectator seats. Industry observers are pulling back their cheers for the beleaguered tech star. For example, Gartner describes the state of cyber AI as immature and advises security analysts to "treat AI offerings as experimental, complementary controls."
My, what a long way we've come from fearing AI as mankind's overlord or a formidable adversary in the upcoming AI wars. To hear some folks tell it, AI is hardly fit to be the mastermind behind a Roomba.
But there are other perspectives to consider, too.
"Some would argue that those spectacular failings are proof that the AI engines are working as expected," says Aviram Jenik, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Security (acquired by HelpSystems). "The premise of AI is to create a more developed level of logic, and the fact that we can't immediately understand why an AI engine fails means it is already 'smarter' than the average human."
Continue reading: https://www.darkreading.com/dr-tech/where-ai-falls-down-in-cybersecurity
Don't expect any sympathy from the spectator seats. Industry observers are pulling back their cheers for the beleaguered tech star. For example, Gartner describes the state of cyber AI as immature and advises security analysts to "treat AI offerings as experimental, complementary controls."
My, what a long way we've come from fearing AI as mankind's overlord or a formidable adversary in the upcoming AI wars. To hear some folks tell it, AI is hardly fit to be the mastermind behind a Roomba.
But there are other perspectives to consider, too.
"Some would argue that those spectacular failings are proof that the AI engines are working as expected," says Aviram Jenik, co-founder and CEO of Beyond Security (acquired by HelpSystems). "The premise of AI is to create a more developed level of logic, and the fact that we can't immediately understand why an AI engine fails means it is already 'smarter' than the average human."
Continue reading: https://www.darkreading.com/dr-tech/where-ai-falls-down-in-cybersecurity
