F-Secure builds 'swarm intelligence' to boost cyber security

We hear a lot about the use of AI in improving security products, but in most cases the assumption is that it will in some way mimic human intelligence. Finnish company F-Secure is challenging that assumption with an initiative it calls Project Blackfin. This aims to use collective intelligence techniques, such as swarm intelligence, to create adaptive, autonomous AI agents that collaborate with each other to achieve common goals. "People's expectations that 'advanced' machine intelligence simply mimics human intelligence is limiting our understanding of what AI can and should do. Instead of building AI to function as though it were… [Continue Reading]