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You can solve any problem with AI if you give enough hints.

The question we asked is if they can solve a problem autonomously, with instructions that would be clear for a reverse engineering specialist.

That say, I found these useful for many binary tasks - just not (yet) the end-to-end ones.

The question we asked is if they can solve a problem autonomously

What level of autonomy though? At one point some human have to fire them off, so already kind of shaky what that means here. What about providing a bunch of manuals in a directory and having "There are manuals in manuals/ you can browse to learn more." included in the prompt, if they get the hint, is that "autonomously"?

"With instructions that would be clear for a reverse engineering specialist" is a big caveat, though. It seems like an artificial restriction to add.

With a longer and more detailed prompt (while still keeping the prompt completely non-specific to a particular type of malware/backdoor), the AI could most likely solve the problem autonomously much better.

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