Chat GPT and Wargame AI

[A Canadian Cat]

I wonder if this same technology can create better AI opponents for wargames like Panzer Campaigns?  I am not versed in the tech, but if the idea is that Chat GPT,

The short answer is "no". Chat GPT is a language processor and it is very good at interpreting questions and writing answers. It is not a tactical thinker. In fact it is not thinking at all really.

if given properly focused parameters, can mimic human responses and decision making, can't this be "plugged in" to wargaming to give us better AI opponents?

Having said what Chat GPT can and cannot do it is absolutely possible to train a machine learning system to do tactics. What you would need would be a large variety of scenarios, units and terrain and then record the battles run by many many humans over and over and then let the AI learn how they behaved in the various situations with a variety of resources. Then the model could be used to make tactical decisions in a new novel scenario.

With enough quality examples it would be quite formidable. With the wrong data it would suck. For example if you recorded novice players fighting against the current AI the result would likely not be very good. Humans often do things against the AI they only do because they know how the AI works. Choices like that don't usually work against a human opponent. If you recorded many thousand battles between experienced human opponents there is a good chance novices would have a very hard time against that AI