Getting Started with AI

In this increasingly digital age, cybersecurity has never been more critical. However, the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) challenges cybersecurity with new technologies and concepts. Adversarial AI allows attackers to use advanced techniques to attack AI. This chapter introduces essential concepts of AI and ML that are aimed at cybersecurity and other technical professionals with little or no experience in AI.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a firm grasp of critical concepts such as models, training, validation, testing, inference, and various types of ML. We will cover popular algorithms that are used in ML, what deep learning is, and understand the roles and functions of popular neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and large language models (LLMs) such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and ChatGPT.

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