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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. Programs cannot reprogram themselves in a useful way and are very very far from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, I'd say continuous training models are pretty close to this. Adapting to changing conditions and new input is kinda what they're for.

[–] Bjornir 1 points 1 year ago

Very far from reprogramming though. The general shape of the NN doesn't change, you won't get a NN made to process images to suddenly process code just by training it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then how does polymorphic/self-modifying code work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't or do you have serious applications for self-modifying code?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Some use it for causing millions of dollars in damage.