The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, recently hosted the qualification for the AI Cyber Challenge, or AIxCC, a festival that requires situations from participants to overcome the barriers of AI-based cybersecurity.
DARPA said Sunday that it held the AIxCC DEF CON 32 semi-final festival, which took place Aug. 8-11. More than 12,500 people attended the event, proving that a must-see festival, especially AI and cybersecurity, is for real life.
The semi-final reduced the field to the seven most sensible groups. Each of those seven teams will receive $2 million and will qualify for the final phase of the two-year competition, scheduled for August 2025.
The seven qualifiers for the final are:
AIxCC, with assistance from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, asked participants to propose inventions in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity for vital open-source software that enables elegant living. These advanced AI systems will be necessary to preserve other sectors such as utilities, healthcare, and finance, especially since the software is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
During the semifinal competition, participating groups were asked to create “cybernetic reasoning systems” for entire “challenging projects. “These AI systems have the ability to automatically detect and fix software vulnerabilities.
Nearly 40 groups submitted their cybernetic reasoning systems and each of them tested them in the same set of challenge projects, which included software such as Jenkins, Linux kernel, Nginx, SQLite3, and Apache Tika. The AI systems were scored based on a public algorithm.
AI systems evolved through participants discovered 22 unique artificial vulnerabilities and 15 of them were patched through the systems. Eleven unique solutions for demanding C-based situations and 4 for demanding situations based on Java have also been determined. Systems discovered a genuine bug in the SQLite3 software.
The seven teams that qualified for the final circular will have one year to further expand their generation. A total of $29. 5 million in prize money is up for grabs at the climax of the competition.
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