US army experimenting with generative AI chatbots in war games: Report
The US Army Research Laboratory is experimenting with generative AI technologies in war games, according to a new report.
The use of generative AI is just one small part of the US Army’s push to take full advantage of artificial intelligence in their strategy. (Illustrative image credit: Pixabay) The United States Army Research Laboratory is experimenting to see whether OpenAI’s generative AI solutions can help battle planning, but within a military video game.
The New Scientist on Wednesday reported how US Army researchers are using OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4 Vision models to provide information about simulated battlefield terrain and details on friendly and enemy forces, as well as military lessons on attacking and defending. They also used two other AI models based on older technology. After that, they gave the AI assistants a mission to destroy all enemy forces and seize an objective point.
The AI assistants immediately outputted many courses of action, at which point, a user playing the role of a commander asked the model to refine that output. While OpenAI’s GPT models worked better than the other two models, they also caused more casualties while carrying out mission objectives.
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