By Canadian Press

AI will get better than humans at cyber offence by 2030: Hinton Lectures speaker

Oct 29, 2024 | 4:51 PM

TORONTO — The keynote speaker at a series of lectures hosted by artificial intelligence luminary Geoffrey Hinton says the technology will get better than humans at cyber offence by the end of the decade.

The views Jacob Steinhardt has are based around his belief that AI systems will become “superhuman” with coding tasks and finding exploits.

Exploits are weak points in software and hardware that people can abuse for their own gain.

To find these vulnerabilities, the assistant professor at UC Berkeley in California says humans would have to read all the code underpinning a system.

While people might not have the patience for that kind of drudgery, Steinhardt says AI systems don’t get bored, so they will not only undertake the task but be very meticulous with it.

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Steinhardt’s remarks concluded the Hinton Lectures, a two-evening series of talks put on by the Global Risk Institute at the John W. H. Bassett Theatre in Toronto.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 29, 2024.

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