AI for Good
By Stuart McClure, President and CEO, Cylance Inc.
Like death and taxes, the inevitable question I cannot escape when on the road is “Will artificial intelligence (AI) spell human extinction?” We humans have a natural fear of the unknown, so the question is, well, natural. The sentiment comes largely from countless movies portraying robots (with self-awareness AI) turning on their human makers and emotionlessly eliminating them. We fear what we do not understand, and AI (or self-learning) algorithms are far from dinner table conversation for most people. So do we have anything to fear and, if so, when will we need to build that cabin in the Canadian Rockies?
When IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov for the very first time at a game of chess in 1996, and then forfeiting their match the following year in 1997, many people thought his defeat spelled the beginning of the end for humanity. While “eliminating humans” might have meant killing them, the same sentiments have tamed a bit, turning to real questions like “Will AI take over the jobs of humans” – and these sorts of questions are relevant and helpful. In the past year alone, at least a dozen headlines in pop-culture and technology magazines alike have asked whether “the robots are coming for our jobs” or have issued cleverly worded and ironic rebuttals to that idea.
At Cylance, we saw that the problem of fighting cyberattacks was a numbers game, with far more threat actors and types of malware than any security team could fight off. Our AI-based approach has turned the tables on that game, allowing security teams around the world to protect invaluable information and our digital ways of life and work - through PREVENTION.
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PMO at Southern California Edison (SCE)
5 年AI is as good as the algorithms written by the programming humans for now.? How about Graphcore's IPUs? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-05/graphcore-s-ai-chips-could-kickstart-the-next-wave-of-computing
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5 年Great article
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7 年Dear Stuart, tks for this opnion piece from a cybersecurity business approach. You raised two daring questions that caught my "looking for avantgardist biz" curiosity. 1. how does AI look and feel that is doing good in the hands of the young generation? 2. how can nature′s principle of biomimicry applied to machine deep learning teach us humans "threat awareness"? goal: increasing human expertise to deal with physical and virtual violence and manipulation in our real and digital lives. #fintech, #edutech #digitalhealth etc. solutions invented and refined under these two headlines could rescue us from the digital stupid and aggressive. Or speaking in my bohemienne language: cybersecurity apply artful technology! Best Patricia von Papstein
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8 年Agree AI is a must to combat the threats today make sense of the nuance of evolving network and user behaviour nefarious or not. Further, to plough through the volumes of data both in content and in messaging is moving beyond an army of intelligent analysts in and industry that is woefully understaffed. So, I'm all in for AI ... my next blog will be looking at using machine learning and which areas of security can benefit the most. The down side is in as much as we the good guys can use it to say perform pentesting... well, likewise the bad actors can also. Accelerating there time to market in uncovering exploits in configurations and architectural shortcomings. It follows that exploits will be more numerous and frequently changed with AI in the hands of the ne'er do wells . As for the end of humanity... rather than speculate playing on our evolutionary fears, lets look at our track record as a species. Take the only example of a technology we have discovered that had the potential to destroy humanity, nuclear fission. Discovered a little over 100 years ago theorized in the 1920's, developed the bomb and used it by the 1940's. Realizing the fact this weapon could destroy humanity. What was our reaction? Get rid of it... no between the USA and Russia enough weapons to kill off the earth 15,000 times were built. Likewise, AI technology must follow its course for good and bad.