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I suspect a lot of this is not (just) capability but bravery. A human would be daunted by even a small neural net; the task would seem too challenging to be worth attempting. Astra, fearless, just assumes an answer exists and then tries to reverse and execute on it.

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I've been finding that too with these models

For example pointing them at a crash dump they manage to piece together and extract information I would not even try to extract by just looking at the raw memory

I once sent Gemini Pro a hex dump of a dmp file and it told me what the application was doing when it crashed. It seemed surprising, but not that surprising given what I've seen already.

It's the same thing with decompilation and hacking. It's not that a human couldn't find the same bug if they looked, but a human wouldn't even try because of the low probability of success because there are so many places to look.

Part of solving that is that AI can do it faster but another part is humans thinking AI has a higher chance than it actually does, so they put it to work in more places.

Human brains are not so good at dealing with a sea of thousands of numbers. Not that it's impossible but there are usually easier ways for us.

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