Security News > 2021 > June > The Future of Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

Actually, pretty much all code does things not thought up by man, because man didn't really think through what man coded.

The problem with any EMCM is it almost always falls into one of the "Arthur C Clarke's" eponymous cognative failing bear traps by those observing such a process.

Whilst Clarke did not call them "Cognative failing" they appeared in an essay with "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" which is essentially saying the same.

The notion of taking "Random" and imbuing it with mystical power, is a failing we more normally see in gamblers with their belief in "Lucky streaks".

You talk of "Generate code using genetic algorithms" as some kind of "Magic" not a creation of "Man's thinking" or you think although you don't say it "Random" is magic when it's not.

Yes you can use "Random" for other things but there is no inteligence or magic behind random, and it's use from generation onwards is still determanistic and a product of "Mans thinking" good or bad. Also called "Clarke's Three Laws" whilst at first they appear general the first and third are about cognative failings in "Outsider observers" whilst the second is more about the cognative failings of "Insider observers".

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