The US military is experimenting with AI bots and training them as war advisors

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The US military is said to have trained chatbots to provide combat advice in a war game simulation.

This experiment was conducted by the US Army Research Laboratory.

US Army researchers have trained chatbots to provide advice in a war simulation gameCredit: Getty

It is hoped that the test could help improve battle planning if AI can be used in this way.

Researchers used OpenAI technology to conduct their tests.

They used the GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4 Vision models.

The bots were asked to respond to scenarios in the military sci-fi video game Starcraft II.

The results have been published online in a new study.

‘The development of Courses of Action (COAs) in military operations has traditionally been a time-consuming and complicated process.

“To address this challenge, this study introduces COA-GPT, a novel algorithm that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to quickly and efficiently generate valid COAs,” the researchers wrote.

Commanders in the study could enter text and image prompts and receive AI advice.

The AI bots acted as an assistant to a military commander during the test.

They were said to respond within seconds with detailed proposals.

I am an AI expert. Here’s a look at which jobs will be cut over the next five years. Is your performance on the chopping block?

The person receiving the advice can then ask for it to be refined before acting on it.

Experts have advised against the use of AI models in war situations.

According to The New Scientist, Carol Smith of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania is one of these experts.

“I would not recommend using a large language model or a generative AI system in high-stakes situations,” she warned.

“COA-GPT’s ability to rapidly adapt and update COAs during missions offers transformative potential for military planning, especially in addressing planning gaps and capitalizing on emerging opportunities,” the researchers concluded.