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echo: rberrypi
to: PANCHO
from: GARETH EVANS
date: 2021-01-04 17:51:00
subject: Re: AI and decompilation?

On 04/01/2021 13:08, Pancho wrote:
> 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?
>

I don't want it to do anything. I want to play at a low level
with the thing ... large oaks from little acorns grow.

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