An AI tool has been launched to help military personnel with a range of essential daily tasks.
Chat-MoD – essentially a secure version of Chat GPT – can assist with the likes of drafting emails, summarising text, retrieving information and answering questions.
Troops could also use it to research geopolitical events, generate weather forecasts for given locations or translate text when communicating with international partners.
Designed by Defence Equipment and Support and the Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre to boost efficiency, the platform trawls a range of internal and external sources to generate answers.
It is part of wider efforts to integrate large language models and the latest multi-purpose AI technology.
Paul Lincoln, the MoD’s second permanent secretary, noted that it was exciting to see the department rapidly adopting new tools.
“Harnessing AI is key to maintaining our competitive edge in the battlespace, and to maintaining our productivity in defence outputs,” he added.
He urged all staff to try the chat bot and make use of available training.
Available across MoD desktops, iPads and iPhones, the platform has seen more than 2,000 users and 10,000 queries per day since its launch.
It is currently in beta version and will continue to be developed according to feedback and demand.
To access Chat-MoD visit chatmod.desdigital.mod.uk on your Modnet device.
