On 04/01/2021 11:00, 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?

If that became possible, it would not be a far step for an AI machine to
self-analyse itself or another AI machine. It could make clones and
unwittingly modify them.

Who knows where that could lead, or what mutations could happen? Life?

>
> 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.

The Chinese would be very interested in you.

I'm sure some of the architecture is provided in layers, some public
like frame buffers and some not like acceleration features. So your
machine code experiments could be done on the former, to learn to walk
first. Or choose another more open graphics chipset if you need more
documentation to get to first base. Perhaps there is on a low end mobile
phone?

Here's a manual way of reverse engineering random chinese hardware.

  [016] IT9919 Hacking - part 1 - Reading firmware with flashrom
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7JRosD_ua8

Your AI solution would have to replicate the ability of the human.

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Adrian C

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