Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Empowering cognitive computing

The spread of AI has been accompanied since the beginning by often excessive and unjustified concerns; many authors and commentators have foreseen apocalyptic scenarios in which machines (in the not too distant future) take precedence over humans. The cause of such disasters would have to be found precisely in the rise of AI.

The reality is that, despite the amazing successes achieved by computers, they still continue to be idiot savants.

There is no doubt that the computational capacities reached by computers exceed those of human beings by several orders of magnitude; the victory achieved by IBM Watson in the match of the century, which saw the computer beating the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, ...