Six Chinese researchers from three different institutions with connections to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) released a paper about the AI in June. The researchers scooped up Llama 13B, an early version of Meta’s open-source large language model, and trained it on military data with the goal of making a tool that could gather and process intelligence and help make decisions.
They called it ChatBIT. “In the future, through technological refinement, ChatBIT will not only be applied to intelligence analysis, but also … strategic planning, simulation training, and command decision-making will be explored,” the paper said, according to a Reuters translation.
In a third paper that Reuters uncovered, two researchers at an Aviation firm connected to the PLA are using Llama 2 for war. The bot is for “the training of airborne electronic warfare interference strategies,” Reuters said.