In 1997, Kasparov lost to Deep Blue. Today, a $50 phone running Stockfish beats every grandmaster alive. This applies to hacking and defending too. The gap has nothing to do with our human idea of skill and everything to do with scale & persistence. Human pentesters check as many attack paths as they can. They find the obvious stuff, get tired, move on. Your environment was “secure” against human-speed thinking. AI checks millions of combinations against all known vuln categories, consistently without fail. It might also chain 4 low-severity findings that individually look harmless into full admin takeover, and while humans might regularly do this type of bug chaining, it’s usually limited to the individuals area of strength (mobile, web, browser etc) Over a long enough time horizon, no human has the patience or levels of pattern recognition to consistently match AI in offensive capabilities. So, to be clear, this is going to keep happening, and it’s not that your previous pentest was bad, but in comparison, it was human. submitted by /u/theonejvo
Originally posted by u/theonejvo on r/ArtificialInteligence