US Army tests AI chatbots as battle planners in a war game simulation

The US Army Research Laboratory is exploring whether OpenAI’s technology can improve battle planning – although only in the context of a military video game.

The US military has already explored using AI technologies to analyse battlefield images and even identify targets for airstrikes – but it only recently began testing large language models and other types of generative AI that empower commercial AI chatbots. In that spirit, US Army researchers examined how well such an AI chatbot could perform in a war game simulation…