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Re:OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pe... by somenameforme on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:04AM (#39023522)
The military thinks they can predict the outcome of battles using tech. They already do extensive sim-gaming stuff for such, and an LLM would fit into these things nicely enough. Whether it actually adds meaningful value matters much less than whether the people paying for it think it can be made to add meaningful value. The other obvious purpose is propaganda, foreign and domestic.
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Re:OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pe... by runlaszlorun on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:13AM (#39023557)
> The military thinks they can predict the outcome of battles using tech.

Ugh. Do they really? Ok, I’m more concerned now.

I’m curious where I can find more about the sim-gaming you mentioned. I know there are all kinds of simulators for training as well as wargaming but wasn’t aware of stuff used for modelling outcomes. Then again, I don’t have any involvement with that stuff professionally.

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Re:OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pe... by somenameforme on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:14AM (#39023898)
There are multiple vendors, but the big one that I am aware of is called KORA. It was used in planning the counter-attack in Ukraine and you can find numerous references to it, such as in this [1] article. But this and classical war-gaming and very related. The entire point of war-gaming (beyond training) is to try to predict the outcome of a conflict.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/04/ukraine-nato...

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Re:OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pe... by kridsdale1 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:34AM (#39024492)
War gaming goes way back. Napoleon did it. Chess is a form of it and it’s thousands of years old.

Dungeons and Dragons and thus all computer RPGs have their direct lineage to military gaming simulations.

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Re:OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pe... by InCityDreams on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:27AM (#39024911)
Tom Scott on yt drove a tank simulator.
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