Russia is developing a new artificial intelligence to counter the monopoly of the West

Putin on Friday at a conference about Russia’s ambitions in the field Artificial intelligence talked. In his speech, he mentioned a new national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence to counter the West.

At the Artificial Intelligence Journey conference in Moscow on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans for a new national strategy to develop artificial intelligence to counter Western influence on the technology.

He said in his words:

“Our internal AI models must reflect the entire wealth and diversity of global culture, heritage, knowledge and wisdom of all civilizations.”

Putin, who outlined the goals of the new strategy during his speech, said Russia would increase its research into generative artificial intelligence and large-scale language models.

To achieve this goal, Russia will increase its power in the field of supercomputers, as well as improve high-level artificial intelligence training. In addition, Putin said that Russia will work to achieve its goals in terms of changing laws and strengthening international cooperation.

Putin’s criticism of current artificial intelligence models

The Russian president lamented that existing AI models work in “selective” or “biased” ways and potentially ignore Russian culture, as they are often trained to solve tasks using English datasets. According to him, in this situation, a special algorithm can tell the artificial intelligence that “our Russia, culture, science, music and literature do not exist”, which will lead to “a kind of subversion of the digital space”.

While Putin made his statements regarding artificial intelligence, English-speaking countries are currently dominating research in this field. According to Stanford’s Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI), the United States and the United Kingdom have the largest number of large machine learning systems.