Well, that was the contest that the seven teams were competing for inDarpas Cyber Grand Challengein August.
The winner of the contest gets prize money of $2m.
Humans can find vulnerabilities but cant analyse millions of programs.
MarI/O just attempted to try different things, it thought would work and when they did, it learned.
And it can be written with very modest hardware.
By the summer of 2016, Karagiannis is hoping to exhibit a proof-of-concept.
Karagiannis told us that he wouldnt be amazed if criminal hackers had adopted these techniques within a year.
Alex Rice, co-founder of security company HackerOne, agrees.
In spite of this, the rise of automation in security is a good thing thinks Rice.
Everybody is struggling to keep up.
He said that the best solution would be to amalgamate the skills of humans with machines.
Humans are much better at what we havent figured out yet.
Until we have fully sentient machines, they still have to be instructed by humans.
Source:The Guardian
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