Results of AI Journey, the VII International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"The task of a new stage in the coming decade horizon is to ensure the massive introduction of artificial intelligence. It should cover all sectors of the economy, the social sphere and the public administration system"
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
President of the Russian Federation

thematic streams gained views over the two days of the conference
countries around the world were following the event
The government will provide businesses with access to ready-made AI solutions
"AI technologies have proven themselves in many industries, and the tools provided by the state, such as the federal project "Artificial Intelligence", have formed a good foundation for scaling AI solutions. The market for artificial intelligence has almost doubled over the past 3 years"
Maxim Gennadievich Reshetnikov
Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

of AI implementations are expected by 2024
is the contribution of organizations using AI to the Russian economy
Under the Government of Russia, the National Center for the Development of Artificial Intelligence was launched
"In order for AI technologies to develop, it is necessary to create an infrastructure where effective solutions for business, science and government will be developed and analyzed, involve as many professionals as possible into work and, of course, prepare human resources. I am sure that the center will become this kind of infrastructure"
Maxim Andreevich Kolesnikov
Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

organizations are involved in the development of the Russian artificial intelligence infrastructure
allocated for the implementation of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" until 2024
More than 160 organizations have joined the code of ethics in the field of artificial intelligence
"We understand that a person is responsible for the technologies that he develops, and is responsible for the results that the work of the technology gives"
Tatyana Vladimirovna Matvveeva
Chief of the Presidential Directorate for the Development of Information and Communication Technology and Communication Infrastructure

organizations have joined the AI code of ethics
rounds of AI code of ethics signings in 2021-2022
The Olympiad on artificial intelligence among schoolchildren ended in Russia
"The Olympiad in artificial intelligence is primarily held to identify and support gifted students who are seriously passionate about programming and machine learning. For many finalists, this hobby will become a profession, and winning the Olympiad will give them extra credit for admission to the leading Russian universities"
Andrey Valerievich Gorobets
Director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Big Data of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation

students of 8-11th grades registered in the qualifying stage
subjects of the Russian Federation received applications for participation in the Olympiad
Business Support
Support for pilot projects to test artificial intelligence technologies
Support for the development of hardware and software complexes for artificial intelligence

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia annually finances 7 projects in order to develop niche hardware and software systems for AI purposes.

At least 7 niche hardware and software systems have been developed for AI purposes.
Supporting Developers
Providing grants to small businesses for the development of artificial intelligence solutions


At least 66 development teams and individual developers are supported to create and develop open libraries.
At least 580 projects using artificial intelligence took part in the acceleration program.
Human Resources
Development of higher education programs in the field of artificial intelligence and raising the teacher professional qualification


Communities
Organising hackathons and lectures on artificial intelligence


Science
Support for research centers in the field of artificial intelligence, including strong artificial intelligence, trusted artificial intelligence systems, and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence


Regulatory Controls
Prospective program for standardization


Key
directions
The demand for scientific results is growing, reducing the gap between theory and practice. Developers note that the interval between the presentation at the A* level conference and the implementation of the presented AI solutions in IT products has shortened to 3 months.
Research in the field of artificial intelligence
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Russia demonstrates high scientific activity and record growth in the number of publications in the field of AI in the international arena. Russia's AI research centers are flagships in research and development. By 2024, Russia should be among the top 10 countries in terms of the number of articles and participation in conferences.
Promising research areas in the field of AI are hardware and software systems in the field of computer vision for additional and virtual reality. Furthermore, among them are speech recognition and synthesis, recommendation and intelligent decision support systems, natural language processing and automatic training of neural networks.
Подробнее ПодробнееРоссия демонстрирует высокую научную активность и рекордный рост числа публикаций в сфере ИИ на международной арене. Российский бизнес ― полноправный участник научной работы в сфере ИИ. Исследовательские центры в области ИИ — флагманы исследований и разработок.
Research Centers
Within the implementation of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence” of the national program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” in 2021 the competitive selection of research centers in the field of artificial intelligence, including in the field of strong artificial intelligence, trusted artificial intelligence systems and ethical aspects of application of artificial intelligence in 14 directions was conducted.
36 applications from Russian universities and scientific organizations for participation were received and 6 research centers in the field of artificial intelligence on the basis of educational and scientific organizations were selected.
Research Center "Strong Artificial Intelligence in Industry", National Research University ITMO

The research center aims to create software based on strong AI technologies to reproduce the creative professional functions of the industry specialist to develop solutions that provide the processes of digital transformation and intellectualization of industrial production.
Potential consumers of the solutions are industrial organizations of the real sector of the economy.
The key implementation partner is PJSC Gazprom Neft, so one of the key objectives of the Center is integrated planning of oil and gas field development and development.
Current results
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In October 2021, the Center became the winner of the grant competition within the framework of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence"
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43 postgraduate students who are employees of the center
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1 engaged industrial partner
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2 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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12 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the center:
Bukhanovsky Alexander Valerievich
Research Center of Artificial Intelligence for the tasks of digital transformation of the economy ANO “Innopolis”

The research center implements the task of accelerating the transition of priority sectors of the digital economy, their digital transformation and solving the problems of industrial partners through machine learning and hardware and software based on artificial intelligence technologies.
The Center plans to develop the following industry-specific hardware and software complexes, which will be included in the register of domestic software:
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Petrochemicals and Chemistry;
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Transport;
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Power Engineering;
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Logistics;
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Medicine;
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Provision of services in electronic form.
For the industrial partners of the center, the cooperation will solve significant problems of reducing the cost of technological maintenance and repair of aircraft and urban transport, optimization of warehouse operations and personnel management at the sites.
Cooperation with partners in the field of chemistry will solve the problems of reducing the number of physical experiments and simplifying the introduction of new products to the market of road bitumen.
The objectives of cooperation with strategic partners in the field of medicine are to improve the efficiency of radiation diagnostics and to create a competitive advantage for the developer of CAMI.
Current results
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2 formed and conducted courses of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the center
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9 postgraduate students, who are the employees of the center
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10 industrial partners engaged
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6 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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5 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the Center:
Kuleev Ramil Fuatovich
Research Center for Trusted Artificial Intelligence ISP RAS

Research Center is developing methods and technologies for creation of trusted artificial intelligence systems. These solutions will reduce the risks of introducing AI in industrial systems.
The aim of the Center is the formation and implementation of methods and appropriate software and hardware platforms for the development and verification of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the required level of confidence. During the implementation of the program, the Center plans to carry out:
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Fundamental and applied research in the field of trusted artificial intelligence;
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Development of a scalable (cloud) platform, including specialized tools for the development of trusted AI systems, as well as a corresponding PAC;
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Creation and moderation of a distributed community of leading Russian scientists on the Center's topics and consumer ecosystem on the basis of the principle of equal accessibility of the Center's results;
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Preparation of highly qualified personnel through the implementation of new training courses on the subjects of the Center and the involvement of students and young professionals in all activities of the Center, including the development of applied trusted AI systems.
The industrial partners of the Center are Kaspersky Lab, ES-Leasing, Interprocom LLC, and TECHNOPROM.
Current results
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2 courses of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center;
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8 postgraduate students who are the employees of the center;
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4 engaged industrial partners;
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1 AI article published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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2 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the Center:
Turdakov Denis Yurievich
Research Center for Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Technologies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

The Artificial Intelligence Center of NRU-HSE aims to create platform software or hardware/software (software/APO) based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. To do this, the Center's specialists will:
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Conduct basic research;
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Develop software tools for industrial partners;
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Create open software libraries for the social sphere.
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The industrial partners of the center are Sberbank, Yandex and MTS.
For the Sber ecosystem, the Center plans to develop AI tools for online education, work with human resources, as well as assessment and risk management in the banking sector. AI technologies will also be used in the Sber system to evaluate goods on virtual platforms.
Together with Yandex, the Center plans to create algorithms for car autopiloting. AI technologies will also be used to categorize complex user traits and optimize pricing on the crowdsourcing platform Yandex.Toloka.
MTS, together with the Center, will develop conditional generation models to significantly improve sound and image quality, as well as approaches to distill neural network models.
The results will be able to influence many of the processes and products of all of the Center's industrial partners.
Current results
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4 formed and conducted course of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center
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11 post-graduate students who are employees of the Center
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3 engaged industrial partners
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5 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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5 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the Center:
Masyutin Alexey Alexandrovich
Artificial Intelligence Research Center for Applied Systems at MIPT

The Research Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems is engaged in the creation of hardware and software based on open platform solutions for the development of conversational assistants, robotic systems and unmanned vehicles with text, voice, photo and video services.
In the process of work will be created prototypes of solutions with elements of strong artificial intelligence for use in e-commerce and several other areas. Sberbank of Russia is a strategic partner of the Center.
Current results
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1 formed and conducted course of lectures and seminars on the subjects of the Center
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12 post-graduate students who are employees of the Center
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2 engaged industrial partner
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1 AI article published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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3 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the Center:
Kondratiev Vyacheslav Vladimirovich
AI Research Center at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

The Research Center implements the project “Artificial Intelligence for Optimizing Managerial Decisions to Reduce Carbon Footprint”.
The project aims to create software based on strong AI technologies to reproduce the creative professional functions of an industry specialist to develop solutions for the processes of digital transformation and intellectualization of industrial production.
Potential consumers of the solutions are industrial organizations of the real sector of the economy.
A key implementation partner is PJSC Gazprom Neft, so one of the key objectives of the Center is integrated planning of oil and gas field development and development.
Monitoring and modeling of carbon footprint and environmental pollution involves:
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Consolidation of multimodal data to build predictive models;
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Modeling of complex physical and socio-economic phenomena;
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Development of a new class of energy-efficient and high-performance models.
The Center's strategic partners are Sber, Yandex, Gazprom Neft and CityAir.
The Center's programs of cooperation with partner companies include creating software to assess atmospheric air quality, optimize managerial decisions in oil production, analyze the risks posed by climate change and refine weather forecasts.
Current results
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2 courses of lectures and seminars on the center's subjects formed and conducted
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14 postgraduate students who are employees of the center
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3 engaged industrial partners
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7 AI articles published in 1st quartile journals and indexed in WOS/SCOPUS systems
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7 publications in the field of AI at level A* conferences

Head of the Center:
Burnaev Evgeny Vladimirovich
The International Forum “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: The Beginning of Trust” became the first specialized platform in Russia, where developers and users of AI technologies discussed the steps for effective implementation of AI ethics in the priority industries.
The key event of the First International Forum “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: The Beginning of Trust” that took place in October 2021 in Moscow was the signing of the AI Code of Ethics. It was signed by more than 40 market participants, including such companies as Sberbank, Yandex, MTS, Gazprom Neft, Skolkovo Foundation, Rosatom, Rostelecom, Nornickel, Innopolis University, MGIMO, NRU HSE, and others.
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