"At a secret US military base located about 50 miles from the Mexican border-exact location: classified-the defense contractor Anduril is testing a remarkable new use for a large language model. I attended one of the first demonstrations last year. From a sun-bleached landing strip, I watched as four jet aircraft, codenamed Mustang, appeared on the horizon to the west and soared over a desolate landscape of boulders and brush."
"The sun burned my eyes, so I turned to a nearby computer monitor under a dusty tarp. With a few keyboard clacks, a fifth aircraft appeared on the edge of the screen, its outline looking suspiciously like that of a Chinese J-20 stealth fighter. A young man named Colby, wearing a black baseball hat and sunglasses, gave the order to deal with the computer-simulated bogey: "Mustang intercept." That's when AI stepped in."
"Anduril's demo illustrates how eagerly the defense industry is experimenting with new forms of AI. The startup is developing a larger autonomous fighter for the US Air Force, designed to fly alongside crewed jets, through a project called Fury. Many of these systems are already autonomous, thanks to older AI tech, but the idea is to incorporate aspects of LLMs into the chain of command, to relay orders and surface useful information to pilots. Sergeant Chatbot at your service."
At a secret US military base about 50 miles from the Mexican border, a defense contractor is testing a large language model to command unmanned jet aircraft. During a demonstration, four prototype Mustangs flew over a desolate landscape while a simulated fifth aircraft appeared on a nearby monitor. An operator issued the order 'Mustang intercept,' and the language model parsed the command, communicated with the drones, and announced 'Mustang collapsing.' Within a minute the drones converged and destroyed the simulated bogey. Anduril is developing larger autonomous fighters to operate alongside crewed jets and to integrate LLMs into command chains to relay orders and surface information to pilots.
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