Robot Bodyguards: Teaching AI to Play Hide-and-Seek with Secrets!
What if we taught super-smart computers to find all the secret weak spots in our games and apps?
Imagine you have a super cool treehouse, and you want to make sure it's super safe from sneaky squirrels trying to get your acorn stash! You wouldn't just build it and hope, right? You'd probably try to *be* a squirrel for a bit, wiggling into all the nooks and crannies to see where they might get in.
Well, grown-ups do something similar with computer stuff, called 'software.' Software is like the secret instructions that make your favorite games, apps, and even super rockets work! Scientists like Ying Zhang thought, 'Hey, what if we teach super-smart computer brains, called AI, to pretend to be those sneaky squirrels?'
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Based on reporting by Phys.org Tech.