Matthew Field
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is bidding for a secretive contract to build swarms of voice-controlled drones for the US military.
The Pentagon has launched a $100m (£74m) competition to develop an AI bot that can be used to translate voice or written commands from soldiers to a fleet of drones.
Mr Musk’s SpaceX is one of the companies pitching for a share of the work, Bloomberg reported.
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is also said to be working with US autonomous vehicles business, Applied Intuition, on a rival bid.
The US military’s Defence Innovation Unit last month confirmed it was seeking bidders to develop an “autonomous vehicle orchestrator”, an AI system that can be used by ordinary soldiers in the field to command “autonomous systems at the fleet level” that can be used to “overwhelm our adversaries”.
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