Britain develops realistic war games with AI to train armed forces

Published on August 10, 2024

The UK has conducted months of trials of the world-beating Project OdySSEy programme developed by BAE Systems, based in Warton, Lancs. It uses AI technology that generates a 60,000 strong population of ‘agents’ that mimic unpredictable events in a safe computer environment.

During tests, members of the army, navy and airforce have taken part in real-time ‘conflicts’ in an environment of AI taught human agents.

The AI powered agents have the ability to learn and adapt to events in a human-like way.

This makes any conflict much more realistic as in the past military planners would have to make huge exercises as safe as possible.

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