Hugo GenesseMar 9
Andrew Zonenberg

Just had a "software engineer specializing on full stack AI/ML development" show up in the ngscopeclient dev chat, give like two lines of what looked like human generated feedback on the CI/build setup, then descend into AI slop completely misunderstanding the infrastructure.

What is the world coming to...

Mar 9 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadLunaphiedMar 9
@azonenberg I can't wait for AI generated scope traces. Just what I need 😅
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMar 9

@Lunaphied We already had someone suggest ML based classifiers for identifying unknown signals which... might actually be something ML could be decent at.

But I expect a heuristic based decision tree would be much faster and more efficient

Show threadLunaphiedMar 9
@azonenberg its probably a combination approach that works best but at least that's something reasonable.
Show threadjasegMar 9
@azonenberg @Lunaphied I’m pretty sure I recently saw that being sold as a product for military purposes
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMar 9

@jaseg @Lunaphied ML classifiers of over the air radio (and probably sonar) signals are common place in military circles.

Being able to land a probe on an unknown signal that could be anything from wifi to I2C and identify it is not something I am aware of existing as a product, but would be cool to have eventually for RE purposes.

Like, I'd recognize SATA a mile off just from a waveform trace but most people wouldn't

Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMar 9
@jaseg @Lunaphied most of the currently deployed applications for the tech I know of are generally SIGINT adjacent though
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMar 9
@jaseg @Lunaphied https://aaronia.com/en/products/software/rtsa-software these guys claim to have a bunch of real time classifier and demodulation tools for example
RTSA-Suite PRO Spectrum Analysis Software - Aaronia AG

RTSA Suite PRO is the world's fastest real-time spectrum analysis software on the market and has been specially developed for our latest SPECTRAN® real-time devices. It makes it possible to integrate various hardware components and use them for analysis.

Show threadSnoopJMar 9
@azonenberg @Lunaphied if not that, surely there are quite a lot of problems in that space that have linear decision boundaries and would be amenable to a less-clumsy approach than statistics(big)
Show threadAttila KinaliMar 9
@azonenberg These people always existed. We just gave them another tool to feel important. The same happened when we got Computers. The same happened when we got the internet. The same happened when we got smartphone. The same will happen again and again and again and again and again....
Show threadhelasloMar 9

@azonenberg Just saw this

They haven't even rephrased it, just ctrl-c ctrl-v with full formatting even

Wtf were they thinking?😅

Show threadAndrew ZonenbergMar 9
@helaslo Not thinking. That is the definition of a slop user