This really is the dumbest timeline.

simulating battle scenarios

Regurgitating reddit armchair generals on /r/noncredibledefense

If they were talking about some complex simulation engine utilizing ML and research carefully collated and constructed, this would be at least interesting.

But they aren’t. We shoved the entirety of text produced by the human race in a big pot, mixed it up, and extrude it by most likely connections. It is predictive of words and phrases, not of human behavior, physics of munitions, or anything actually useful for modeling warfare.

They’re fucking generating war fanfic and using it to make stratgic decisions. Just hire Clancy, Crichton, Card, and/or whoever’s ghost writing for them now. It’d be cheaper.