Speaking on AIs, why haven't we built a virus scanner AI? All we use is pattern matching to search for viruses. And that only catches viruses that have been found by humans previously. It is very easy for a skilled human to notice a virus, why not an AI?
Besides the fact that Mircosloth and Boogle are the number one creators of viruses.
What a nice post, and nice conversation you two are having here!
It's useful to think about the inmune system. The body needs the right lymphocyte to be around when an antigen is attacking. Just like with computer viruses, there is an unlimited number of possible ones, so how do our bodies handle the issue? There seems to be an interplay between random and non-random lymphocyte production. So if there is no detected threat production will be mostly random, but when there is a threat many copies of the appropiate lymphocyte are made. Also, it isn't well understood how, but despite this randomness healthy bodies don't suffer from "false positives" (imagine a spread of malicious white cells!). Would you grant the inmune system the status of "intelligent" given that it manages to fight against the best virus creator (evolution)?
Genetic algorithms are one way in which these insights are being used in programs but they do create a "box" within which the program's creativity is confined. Nevertheless, how would we know if our creativity has or doesn't an analogous box?
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They kind of do attempt to do that with heuristics... the problem becomes the FALSE positives. We could teach a machine to identify them, but what about false positives?
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By thinking outside the box! :-p
There are two types of viruses, internal acting and external acting.
Internal ones are trying to muck up the system. These should be fairly easy to identify if we actually had real sandboxing operating systems. It would be nice if an AI identified them, suspended them, and then told the user about it.
The external ones: How do you tell the difference between pockymon go and a virus telling the world all your information. Well, this is most easily done with actually understanding the internet. Like, this program is wanting to go out to shady bars in the slum parts of town... suspicious.
Lots of work to be done in this field. But it probably won't take off until microsloth is forced to clean up their act. When the real pushback to big brother happens.
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the external one is more known as a Worm I would think. Still get's lumped in with viruses when talking of detection though.
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