"Why is formal verification exploding NOW?"
1. Cost of proofs is going DOWN (as AI gets more capable)
2. Cost of exploits is going UP (as AI gets more dangerous)
3. Proofs exterminate exploits
4. Bonus: proof checking = perfect math/coding RL reward
The rest is economics
At this point, if you’re in software and aren’t currently working on a plan for moving to formal verification, it’s irresponsible.
The writing is on the wall. This needs to be your priority now.
Correct.
We're getting the biggest "bug bash" in human history, probably what would have been ~40 years' worth of disclosures and CVEs in existing software, compressed in ~2.
What the industry needs is fixers, and new (faster) ways to fix!
I have an AI agent that logs every negative comment someone makes about me online.
It then creates a profile of the person, maps all of their social connections, and finds all their emails.
Tomorrow morning, my AI agent will sent out an email blast to everyone's extended social network, detailing the horrible things they've said about me.
BREAKING: "Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble," per AFR
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@Sentdex From the post they put out it looked like they did + how they said oh we are going to open source it then turn around an open source a shell and then go oh sorry we will now open source the full thing. Was super dodgy and sure as heck looked like they did, however I have no proof
In the last 24 hours:
1. iPhone 11 through 16 are apparently vulnerable to remote attacks.
2. SSL certificates are broken until browsers remove eMudhra CA.
3. PHP >9 vulnerability CVE published (tomorrow).
The world is about to witness things that have never been seen before.