DSEI 2023: 4GD to upgrade SimStriker smart target with generative AI and computational vision
This integration of ChatGPT will help eliminate repetitive phrases and enable the company to create diverse personas for its smart targets. (Photo: 4GD)
Both the SimStriker enhancements involving computer vision and generative AI are currently in development, with some aspects already de-risked.
Immersive close combat training specialist 4GD is working to improve its humanoid, non-ballistic smart target called SimStriker with generative AI and computational vision.
Talking to Shephard at DSEI 2023 in London, James Crowley, business development director at 4GD, said the computer vision will allow the targets to see and identify objects and trainees further away and engage with them appropriately.
This means that a moving curtain, for instance, would not trigger a reaction from SimStriker, or it would react to a dog differently from a human soldier, Crowley said.
In terms of generative AI, 4GD has been working to implement
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