On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:00:29 +0000
gareth evans  wrote:

> But I wonder if Artificial Intelligence could, after
> being fed with numerous instruction sets, take a
> block of binary, and analyse its source without
> any prior knowledge of the instruction set?

 Now *that* would be an interesting AI project to see the results
of. I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "Nobody knows, please
publish when you find out" or thereabouts.

 There's plenty of training material available in the form of open
source compiled for all sorts of platforms you just need to decide on an
AI architecture that's up to the job (hopefully something short of
Alpha Go Zero), build it (or rent it in "the cloud") and train it. It would
still be useful if you had to train one for each instruction set (or
family).

 The biggest challenge would be comparing the source codes, but code
that compiles to an equivalent binary would be good enough as long as it
didn't cheat (create binary array and call it for example).

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