Thursday, October 15, 2015

Firms Pit Artificial Intelligence Against Hacking Threats - The New York Times

Part of an extensive NYT security special section

"Sometimes the best way to stop a bad machine is with a lot of good machines.

Several companies are applying the techniques of artificial intelligence, or A.I., to the world of security, and they are using a whole bunch of machines strung together in so-called cloud computing networks to do it. Originally the province of university researchers and now one of the ways Google and other companies figure out what is going on across the web, A.I. technology is being employed by security companies who say they can beat criminals by using many of the same strategies."
Firms Pit Artificial Intelligence Against Hacking Threats - The New York Times

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