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echo: rberrypi
to: GARETH EVANS
from: PANCHO
date: 2021-01-04 13:08:00
subject: Re: AI and decompilation?

On 04/01/2021 11:00, gareth evans wrote:
> Thinking back to my first job, nearly 50 years ago now,
> when I had to dis-assemble DEC's paper tape BASIC
> interpreter in order to enhance it, I guess that
> dis-assemblers and decompilers must now be ten-a-penny,
> especially for programs running under Windows where
> the structure of Windows programs is well-known with
> an assumption that C was the source language?
>
> 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?
>
> I am particularly interested in the Binary Blob
> provided for Raspberry Pi computers, with a view to
> getting detailed knowledge of the video processors
> employed therein.
>
I think a lot of the problem is defining the question.

What do you want it to do?

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