DARPA BELIEVES AI CYBER CHALLENGE COULD UPEND PATCHING AS THE INDUSTRY KNOWS IT

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DARPA Director Rob McHenry believes that a combination of LLMs and formal methods for software development could virtually eliminate software vulnerabilities. Formal methods are a laborious process that uses mathematical models to prove the correctness of software. McHenry believes that given the success of the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge, LLMs could be used with formal methods to generate and validate the correctness of proofs automatically.