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Vitalik emphasizes the feasibility of integrating AI applications: expected to address Ethereum's biggest technical risks

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Vitalik emphasizes the feasibility of integrating AI applications: expected to address Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated that the biggest technical risk for Ethereum at the moment may be code errors, and AI evidently has the potential to help optimize Ethereum in the future.

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Vitalik's tweet highlights:

One of the AI applications that excites me is using AI for verification codes and bug detection. Currently, one of the biggest technical risks for Ethereum is errors in the code, and any method that can significantly change the rules of the game is amazing.

Previously, Vitalik had written about four categories of integration between AI and blockchain.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin's Article: Prospects and Challenges of Integrating AI with Blockchain

However, the accuracy of AI in debugging code vulnerabilities seems to be mixed.

AI Writing Code, Finding Bugs? Mixed Reviews

In July 2023, blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin conducted an experiment using GPT-4 to identify Solidity smart contracts, but GPT-4 only identified 20 out of 28 vulnerabilities.

GPT-4 even described a vulnerability that didn't actually exist. CertiK's Chief Security Officer, Kang Li, commented:

Writing code through AI tools like ChatGPT often leads to more security issues.

He suggested AI should only serve as an "assistant" to code engineers, which can significantly improve efficiency.

Prior to this, Coinbase executive Conor Grogan used GPT-4 to quickly identify a vulnerability in a smart contract that had been attacked by hackers in 2018. He believes that AI will ultimately make smart contracts safer and easier to build.

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