ML researchers are not sec researchers. they need to stick to their own game.
companies need to use both camps for a good holistic view of the problem. ML is the blue team. sec researchers the red.
you survived a lot longer than I did. I feel like this for a long time now. I just use it now to do research, check HN feed for some news / procrastinating when I'm bored. Despite posting here n there I kind of assume its just talking into the wind or getting reviewed by bots.
I even like AI somewhat, some things it produces. pretty pictures i guess. scfi-fi. but still its not engaging anymore, you get saturated very quickly if things are always available.
The internet seems pretty much dead for a long long time already. a few bastions here n there of maybe-real-people talking. I had some minor hope AI/ML might actually improve things, get rid a bit of the bubbles caused by algos, but its gotten much much worse actually.
AI is not the cause of the decline or rot, but its definitely accelerating it.
A lot of things I cared about are taken over by the loud-n-stupid bunch who yells only in blanket statements and never seems to be able to produce any sound reasoning or evidence for their discourse. i call them bots despite them likely being confused humans...
The worse thing is, that it seems now more and more actual people in the real world are mimicking this behavior. Trying to say smart things about topics they know nothing about, because if chatGPT can give some smart sounding lines, why shouldnt I be able to? I am researcher of technology and the number of times people hand my vibe-coded or written totalgarbage to review or fix, (papers, experiments etc.). Their capacity to think and reason is diminishing fast. They will be fierce and toxic if you highlight this as a concern, or point at any of their hallucinations.
I've expeirenced already a few times that people, like a group of zombies, gang up on me (debate/argument) and all jump on arguments which are trivially proven to be incorrect. Even if you prove them incorrect infront of them, they will just try to eat your brain/prove you wrong by talking louder etc. - and these are 'highly educated individuals'.
Considering to leave my research job, after about 12 years of trying to work myself into such a position, and just go back where i started.. to drive a forklift. its more likely i'd be working with real humans there. and if it's a robot, atleast its a real fuckin robot, not one of these infiltrator units...
The name Pegma is a play on words that combines: "peg" (peg, token) is the main element of the game and "theorema", which is associated with mathematical rigor and logic
there was a guy who did relatively simple ML with RL on a druid in world of warcraft and put it into 2v2 arenas. soon enough it was completely unbeatable regardless of what human it got paired with. a 1 man army lol XD. they guy did pick the right class for it, but still. AI players done right with RL become insanely difficult to beat.
games like CS its less useful because it will be blatantly aimbotting. as it gets better it will be more and more obvious. you might be able to train it to mimick human mistakes, but i think ultimately it will be easily spotted by other players. for games without the hand-eye-coordination like turn-based games or games with 'global cooldowns' , mmorpgs etc., it will be much harder to identify.
i think normal subtle cheats like ESP when 'done right' are much more killing esports than this would.
i see a lot of complaints about certain games (windows / kernel-anti-cheat) not working. Consoles have always had exclusive titles. Windows also has them now via this anti-cheat stuff. This changes litterally nothing.
Also, you can even install windows on the box. it's one of its selling points actually... if you really want to...
kernel level anti-cheat is generally not even needed, so perhaps those companies will now consider rolling proper anti-cheat themselves rather than third-party rubbish that no one asked for.
What i also like about this console development is that it might open the door to other smaller players creating consoles in the form of mini-PC with linux and a gaming layer on there. maybe there will be (oem?)partner for valve that make more beefy machines, machines with alternate OSes (windows + skin) etc.
its a different angle that will open up many things hopefully. make it less exclusive market between essentially 3 parties.
