How ChatGPT is changing the way cybersecurity practitioners look at the potential of AI

Artificial intelligence and machine-learning programs have often been a punchline in cybersecurity circles, a prime example of overhyped marketing run amok and a buzzword tool that overpromises and underdelivers. But the emergence this week of a new chat program that has shown promising capabilities to write malware, generate detection rules and fulfill a number of other digital security functions is changing the outlook of practitioners.

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