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Vladimir Putin has unveiled Russia\u2019s new strategy for developemnt in the artificial intelligence front to counter Western influence over the technology and protect the country\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur domestic models of artificial intelligence must reflect the entire wealth and diversity of world culture, the heritage, knowledge, and wisdom of all civilizations,\u201d the Russian president reportedly said at the Artificial Intelligence Journey conference in Moscow on Friday.<\/p>\n
He claimed investment in AI development in the country was increasing across sectors.<\/p>\n
Citing the example of Gazprom Neft, Mr Putin said one of Russia\u2019s largest oil producers was using AI to slash the cost of oil well development and to address complicated logistics safety issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope we will be more active in this area. When I say \u2018we,\u2019 I am referring not only to the Government but also to the regions and industries, and individual plants,\u201d Mr Putin said.<\/p>\n
The Russian leader said the country would intensify its research into the domains of generative AI and large language models which are behind trending tools like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Bard chatbots.<\/p>\n
Speaking about such AI models, he said these tools have began to reveal their potential just a year ago, but added that not everything about them is ideal yet.<\/p>\n
Mr Putin pointed to \u201cWestern search engines\u201d and generative AI models, calling them \u201cvery selective and biased.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey do not take into account and sometimes simply ignore and cancel Russian culture. In simple terms, the machine is given some creative assignment and performs it using only the English language database,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThus, the algorithm may tell the machine that Russia, our culture, science, music and literature simply do not exist. They are cancelled in the digital space, as it were,\u201d the Russian president said at the conference.<\/p>\n
AI created according to \u201cWestern standards\u201d, he said, may emerge as a \u201ckind of xenophobe\u201d.<\/p>\n
English speaking countries currently appear to dominate AI development, with Stanford\u2019s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) claiming the US and UK were further ahead in the technology than the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
The Russian president warned that the \u201cmonopolistic dominance\u201d of the technology was \u201cunacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur innovations should rest on our traditional values, the wealth and beauty of the Russian language and languages of other peoples in Russia,\u201d Mr Putin added.<\/p>\n
To achieve such development, he called for the scaling up pf Russia\u2019s supercomputing power and to improve its top-level AI education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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