The most valuable digital assistants will come from open approaches
Summary
From HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) to KITT in “Knight Rider” (1980s), to JARVIS in “Iron Man” (2008-), to the emergence of today’s Siri, Alexa and chatbots, we have been waiting for truly intelligent digital assistants for a long time. And open solutions like Google’s TensorFlow, Facebook’s Pytorch and the Hugging Face Transformers library are helping to power the next wave of AI development. This means customers are only as safe as the vendor’s ability to hire the best cybersecurity experts and developers and keep up with evolving threats, all of which may be impacted by financial or operational decisions that have nothing to do with security. Vendors share code, detection rules and artifacts to improve every organization’s ability (paying customer or not) to understand the behavior of the AI model and protect their systems and data from intrusions and exploits. It’s just a matter of time before the use cases are defined, the security issues are solved, and the solutions are delivered, launching the era of truly useful digital assistants that help in every area of our lives.
