Automated Combat

Automated Combat is a browser-based toy that asks a simple question: what happens if you put two historical figures with opposing worldviews in a room and let an AI referee? You choose the combatants, press start, and watch the argument build line by line. The result is part education, part theatre, and a clear showcase of what large language models can do with a bit of character prompting.

Two formats are on offer. The debate mode produces a spoken-style argument in which each figure presses their case. The rap mode rewrites the same clash as rhyming verses, with the site itself displaying a sample exchange between Elon Musk and Karl Marx to demonstrate the effect. Nothing is scripted by hand: the dialogue is generated on the fly by GPT-4 using the personalities you selected.

Automated Combat was built by AE Studio, a development, data science and design agency, and reads as a public demonstration of its AI capabilities rather than a commercial software product. That explains why the site is free to use and why its pricing entry elsewhere points to a contact-for-pricing arrangement rather than a subscription.