vintergroena OP t1_jdvons9 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 3:21 PM

Reply to comment by SmellElectronic6656 in [D] Can we train a decompiler? by vintergroena

Ultimately, you could force open-sourcing of any software (if you can run it on your device, not SaaS)

vintergroena OP t1_jduazsh wrote on March 27, 2023 at 6:41 AM

Reply to comment by bubudumbdumb in [D] Can we train a decompiler? by vintergroena

Exactly, a lot of the tech is already there, it's perhaps more about unobfuscating the code rather than decompiling it.

vintergroena OP t1_jdtzyuo wrote on March 27, 2023 at 4:28 AM

Reply to comment by Fit-Recognition9795 in [D] Can we train a decompiler? by vintergroena

Yeah, GPT sucks on tasks which require actual thinking and personally I am kind of skeptical about it's actual usefulness tbh. But my impression is that despite being primarily built to work with natural language, it actually does work better with computer code. Probably because computer code has much simpler structure. This got me thinking that building something more specialized that would be required to only work with computer code would actually be an easier task - more similar to automated translation perhaps, which is already working pretty well using ML.