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You'll know full-on no-engineer-required AI is here when you can point an AI at an IoT device and say "hack it", walk away for 30 minutes, and come back to a ha
by jerf 1y ago
You'll know full-on no-engineer-required AI is here when you can point an AI at an IoT device and say "hack it", walk away for 30 minutes, and come back to a hacked device.
I'm not even being sarcastic. Most of them aren't that hard to hack now as it is; I know a guy who broke at least two devices in under an hour each because that's how bad they are. A piece of junk that goes out today that maybe still flies under the radar and nobody bothers to hack it isn't going to fly under the radar in a world where there's 10, 20, 50 times more "software engineering" power in the world, in the hands of a lot more people. In 5 years those things are going to be a nightmare for their owners, for their manufacturers, for all kinds of people.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoFinding a novel exploit against a device is kind of a reach right now, but if you give it a device with public unpatched vulnerabilities that were present in the AI's training data, emitting code to exploit them given arbitrarily many attempts is the sort of thing it can already do.