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The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
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The US Army is developing AI models trained on data from real missions, with the goal of deploying a chatbot specifically for soldiers.
Key facts
- AI could introduce new kinds of problems for militaries, says Paul Scharre, executive president of the Center for New American Security and a former US Army Ranger
- Efforts to integrate AI into military systems accelerated following the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022 — We have all of these lessons learned from missions like the Ukraine-Russia War and Operation Epic Fury,” says Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer
- Victor is being developed within the Combined Arms Command (CAC)
Summary
“We have all of these lessons learned from missions like the Ukraine-Russia War and Operation Epic Fury,” says Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer, . Miller showed WIRED a prototype of the system, called Victor, that combines a Reddit-like forum with a chatbot called VictorBot to help troops surface useful information, like the best way to configure electromagnetic warfare systems for a particular mission. The Pentagon has ramped up its efforts to incorporate AI into military systems over the past two years, but Victor is a rare example of the military building AI for itself. Miller says the Army is working with a third-party vendor that will run and fine-tune the AI models that power Victor.