GOOGLE USES AI TO REMOVE APPS FROM THE PLAY STORE

THE ANDROIDS DEFEND ANDROID.

Google Play does a pretty good job of keeping malicious apps off its servers, but the list of threats only gets longer. Thankfully Google has a secret weapon up its sleeve: AI. The company claims to have used machine learning models to train its malicious software scanners to pull 700,000 harmful apps from the store in 2017, some 70% more than the previous year. This translated into 50% less user downloads of ‘bad’ apps containing malicious software attempting to intentionally deceive users.