The Pentagon is one step closer to building autonomous mechanics that can find and fix vulnerabilities in the world’s digital underbelly — and all it took was a few million dollars and a contest with some of the best and brightest at hacker summer camp.
At this weekend’s
@defcon conference,
@DARPA convened 90 teams and asked them to build autonomous agents to probe open-source code bases, find vulnerabilities and automatically fix them. Building technology capable of doing so represents a white whale of AI development: a highly difficult-to-achieve technological breakthrough that could deliver massive gains in cybersecurity.
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