Artificial intelligence

“A World Without Work:” First-ever AI-translated book published in Russia

December 2, 2020

Three months after The Guardian published an op-ed entirely written by AI, Yandex announces the “first-ever book translated by AI from English into Russian in less than a minute and published for a mainstream audience.” The book is that of Daniel Susskind, a famous English economist, on the coming era of artificial intelligence: A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, …

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Sber invests in AI-powered brand reputation management

November 30, 2020

Sber, the state-controlled financial and tech giant (previously known as Sberbank) has acquired a 8% stake in Watchout!AI  in exchange for a acquired 8%. The startup was valued at 125 million rubles, or $1.6 million at the current exchange rate. Founded in 2019, Watchout!AI uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms to “easily detect and prevent brand …

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Moscow government experiments AI in local healthcare system

December 2, 2020

Launched almost a year ago, a Moscow city experiment to use artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies in the local healthcare system has involved more than 20 solution providers offering 38 services. The city authorities intend to involve even more providers, medical organisations and doctors, and develop new AI use cases. The city also aims …

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Sber upgrades ranking of Russian neural networks

November 30, 2020

Sber has presented its leaderboard called Russian SuperGLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation), the first ranking of neural networks for the Russian language. A neural network’s ranking position depends on how well it deals with tasks in logic, commonsense, reasoning, and general language understanding. Designed by the SberAI team with Huawei and the Higher School of Economics, the …

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AI, Blockchain, quantum: Online event series to highlight “next-wave technologies” (Dec. 1, 10, 22)

November 25, 2020

GenerationS and Sequence Ventures announce #GENSTechTalks a new series of talks (in English language) to explore the Russian tech landscape with the leading industry experts.  The series is scheduled as follows: December 1: Quantum technologies with Maria Lepskaya of Runa Capital; December 10: Blockchain with Eldar Khamitov of G1 Ventures; December 22: Artificial Intelligence with Alexey Fomin of Botkin.AI. …

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Russian AI experts on LO-shot learning: Not really new, but promising

November 25, 2020

In October, the MIT described a new approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms: “Less than one-shot,” or LO-shot learning – which could, in theory, bring a fundamental change to machine learning (ML). An AI ​​model trained using this technique could be able to recognize even more real objects than was presented in the training dataset. In other …

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Anton Mironenkov, Head of X5 Technologies: “In this pandemic, digital transformation is proving essential”

November 26, 2020

Over the last years, X5 Retail Group, a leading Russian food retailer listed on the London and Moscow stock exchanges, has undertaken a process of deep digital transformation from procurement automation, to facial recognition, to video analytics. As Head of X5 Technologies, Anton Mironenkov, leads a team of some 2,500 professionals. In this interview with …

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New Russian AI and cloud investment firm backs 3D rendering company Megarender

November 19, 2020

Russian 3D rendering company Megarender has secured $3 million from Scalo Technologies, a firm launched earlier this year to invest in artificial intelligence and B2B cloud services. Megarender facilitates access to powerful servers to increase considerably the speed of 3D rendering. Customers may thus use such software as 3ds MAX, Arnold, Blender, Cinema 4D, Corona Renderer, …

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From energy policies, to education, to crime investigation, Russian government bets on AI to achieve its digital transformation

November 18, 2020

The Russian government has plans to use of artificial intelligence increasingly in the framework of its digital transformation.   On November 12, the heads of digital transformation of seven federal ministries and agencies — covering energy, industry and trade, culture, education and science, cadastre, agriculture, and taxes — gathered in a “strategic session on artificial …

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Russia’s first AI-powered harvesting successes open the way to a wave of agritech innovation

November 17, 2020

Cognitive Technologies, an established Russian software corporation, is developing one of the world’s most advanced autonomous AI-based driving systems for farming equipment. Under the brand ‘Cognitive Agro Pilot,’ this system was used across 35 regions of Russia when reaping the 2020 harvest. “Between June and October 2020, over 350 autonomous harvesters fitted with [our] solutions …

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Moscow City’s AI-powered traffic camera systems detect drivers without seatbelts

November 3, 2020

Moscow has installed traffic cameras that are able to detect when drivers are not wearing their seatbelts or are using their phones while behind the wheel. “Cases of rule violations will be precisely established by these certified photo and video systems, with the help of neural networks and Big Data,” the city authorities announced via …

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Sber and Visa launch data lab with AI supercomputer

October 16, 2020

Sber, the Russian state-controlled financial and tech giant, is teaming up with Visa to launch “Russia’s first Data Lab.” The partners intend to “use anonymized data to track changes in customer behavior and design the most customized offerings for all users of card products by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.”  “The move is aimed at …

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