"UF Partners With CIA on Improving Cybersecurity"

The University of Florida (UF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have partnered up to study the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to detect and prevent malicious agents that infiltrate computer networks. The work will be carried out by researchers affiliated with the UF's Florida Institute for National Security. According to Damon Woodard, principal researcher and newly appointed director of the Florida Institute for National Security, this collaboration will accelerate the ability to understand and expand research on AI applications of AIML to cybersecurity. Reinforcement learning, which attempts to mimic how humans learn through trial and error, will be one area of study as little research has been done on applying ML to cybersecurity problems. Researchers will study this technology through simple problems to see if it is possible to scale up solutions. They hope this study will revolutionize how the world thinks about cybersecurity and provide insights and technologies that can improve upon data protection and bolster security across government and private sectors. This article continues to discuss the partnership between UF and the CIA to study how AI and ML can be used to combat the infiltration of malicious agents into computer networks.

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