I would like to be able to take compiled machine code and generate human-readable source code.
Imagine being able to fully understand and even modify all closed-source, commercial software.
You can kind of do this now. The problem is that variable names and debugger info is lost, so you wind up with all variables and functions being named v1, v2, v3, etc and f1(), f2(), f3(), etc.
Decompilation is totally a thing
Right but I assume the parent meant that the AI could guess what the original function and variable names were based on the code, and may be even clean the code up by deoptimizing it too.
Trying to make sense of decompiled code is pretty hard for any large code base.
Deoptimization could definitely happen via AI or even just really good decompilers (much like the black magic that goes into compiler optimizations), but I think that the problem with coming up with original function names is that the information just isnt there. You or the AI can make assumptions and poor guesses, but from a data theory perspective, i think that the compilation process is highly lossy. As such, the AI would essentially have to pull things out of its metaphorical ass to make anything remotely functional. I’ve had AI write me code with functions that literally don’t exist in libraries before instead of telling me it’s not possible, and I’m sure many of you reading this have too. Extrapolating that kind of behavior onto this problem, I am doubtful of a successful implementation of this half of the idea.
It sure as shit would be neat though if it could be done, and it would be a strong reciprocal to what Microsoft does with code theft to use as training data for copilot.
By a twitch streamer vtuber: https://github.com/cyberkaida/reverse-engineering-assistant
An AI assistant that hooks into Ghidra, explaining what things do.
I like the thought of games made on older engines, especially mmos, being able to be mostly transitioned over to new ones such that they would do it.
I personally hope that all of this AI stuff will become a flop and disappear soon. It’s unreliable, not eco-friendly and dangerous for privacy
It really seems overblown to me. Maximum hype with minimum actual results delivered. Not saying it is useless, but I don’t think we’re going to see entire professions eliminated overnight as is being predicted.
I really think calling it “artificial intelligence” is a stretch. It’s guided pattern recognition which can do some flashy things but is not intelligence any more than parroting speech is.
Plenty of sizzle, very little beef. What will be the next flavor du jour?
Seeing how completely crazy people across vast swathes of society have gone for AI/LLMs has significantly downgraded my opinion of other people, which was already pretty low.
You don’t have to have a wide knowledge base to figure out these things hallucinate constantly if you ask them anything that isn’t super easy to find yourself on a search engine—and if you can do that, why bother with LLM? And yet I still (with horror) see some people say that they ‘learn’ things from it and that it’s their favorite way to ‘learn’! If you aren’t constantly fact checking you’re doing the digital equivalent of casting bones to see what it says.
NFTs, wearable tech, VR, 3D, etc…
Beanie Babies, Pogs, Tulips…
Wearable tech and VR do make some sense. NFT is not eco-friendly cuz based on blockchain. 3D? Idk it’s just for fun I guess. But at least it’s not consuming the power of a small country to run the servers
Seeing this comment upvoted so much gives me hope for humanity.
A CEO app, to make fucking rational decisions
And maybe vet rid of the money hoarding CEOs. Well when we’re dreaming here :-)
Well, if you have a CEO app, you don’t need a CEO right?.
Next up: manager apps. It’s only the individual contributors that create value anyway.
Virtual Assistants that can parse a command even if it has a long uhhhhh in the middle of it.
Or if you correct yourself in it!
I’ve been using Google’s Gemini and it’s pretty good at interpreting fucked up or imperfect smart commands. For example we have some lights named “Chrimas Lights” and it will turn those on and off by referring to them as Christmas lights. It can also do multiple commands in a row without being overly explicit. So you can say “set lights to x%, make them yellow, and turn them off in an hour and set my TV to volume x” and it’ll do it no problem. The old assistant could not do anything even close to this.
It’s also much faster and processes words as fast if not faster than a human can. From finishing a command to the command being executed seems to be about 1/10th of a second which makes me wonder if it’s doing any sort of inferencing on the back end. It’s one of the best LLM integrations I’ve seen so far.
I want to see games with AI-powered NPCs making responsive, possibly unique dialog. Probably text-only at first, but maybe with AI voice-acting later on.
That would blur the line between “intended behavior” and “glitch” so much.
Like, imagine NPCs breaking the fourth wall.
There are mods for this in skyrim already, and there is an AI text-based adventure game thats been around for a long time.
I hope to have something running locally that can easily sort my photos. Especially something that can handle children and non-white people. So far everything I’ve tried seems to fall short.
A privacy-enhanced personal assistant that doesn’t send anything to the cloud.
There’s a number to chose from, depending on your hardware and preferences.
On this here server, you could go to [email protected] for a start.
This community [email protected] is dedicated to local LLMs but the one on reddit, with the same name, is much larger. The guides are a bit dated but should suffice for a start.
AI models that can perform well without sending everything off to the cloud to do so are going to be high on my wish list. Partly for privacy, partly for responsiveness, partly for resilience when the internet goes down. I’ve heard some rumors that this is a focus for the AI that will drive the next upgrade to Siri, and I hope that turns out to be true.
A digital assistant that can follow me around using the data my phone provides, and then use that data to actually suggest ways to improve my life.
“My phone” knows everything about me, where I go, what stores I visit, how long I’m there, transactions, etc. It knows all my contacts, all my social relationships, all my appointments, shopping lists, all my text messages, etc.
“Assistant has determined you stop for cigars about every 4 days. We’ve found this online store that will deliver your brand at a lower cost”
“Assistant overheard you mention that you need sugar, and it is absent from your shopping list.”
"Assistant will suspend realtime driving directions because it overheard you say ‘shut the fuck up, I’m stopping at 7-Eleven first’ "
Alpha fold use in drug development
A private tutor for language learning, or maybe even learning a musical instrument.
In a similar vein, I’d like to see a 100% (or at least as close to that as practically possible), zero-latency live translator.
everyone gets a ai publicist for managing your social media, an ai headhunter for finding better jobs that suit your personality and requirements… a coach/mentor for whatever pursuits…
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Something with enough context to write sensible test cases for a large codebase. It would be great if you could write test cases for a couple of domains, then ask it to write cases for a third domain following the same general style as the first. It would ideally have a conversation about what things to mock/stub and what things to keep.
I personally think 5 years isn’t enough time to get to that point with something that works really well. It’s tricky enough to get a junior up to speed with doing it sensibly, but cutting down on the time it takes to build a good test suite would mean we Devs can spend a lot more time on features and improvements.
Animal Crossing with AI villagers
I hope there will be AI audiobooks of this quality without the need for a team of people working on them:
An ai that poisons any trace of art or text scraped by previous ai in all of its non-consent architecture that’s being propped up much the same way nfts were as “the future”
