[000:00:00;00] president of the russian federation, vladimir vladimirov putin, good afternoon, dear friends, i want to welcome all the guests, discussions of distinguished speakers or a journey into the world of artificial intelligence , this is our eighth conference in a row, at this conference we have physically present guests from more than 10 countries, we already have virtual participants,

online participants of more than 100. million people from 150 countries, and every year our conference becomes more and more popular, and the number of participants, the number views of our conference and the number of countries is growing all the time, no matter what. dear friends, today with us in this room are specialists, leaders in various fields, applications and development of artificial intelligence, we will talk today and decided that this year there is a reason for this, we will talk about large language models and generative artificial intelligence, fortunately that the events of the last year have given us great grounds for putting this particular issue at the center of our discussion with you, and we we want to discuss what generative

artificial intelligence is based on: large language models can give to humanity, how it will expand human capabilities and abilities. in this room there are also our respected partners, companies developing artificial intelligence, members of the alliance in the field of artificial intelligence, and i, uh, want to thank everyone present for their active work in preparing for this conference both in their work and in its work. of course, i want to say a big thank you to maxim stanislavich oreshkin, who put in a lot of effort to this dmitry nikolaevich chernyshenko, the ministry of digital development, the ministry of development, the entire government for creating, first of all , the conditions for the possibility of a fairly rapid, dynamic development of artificial

artificial intelligence technology in our country. this is critically important, and i want to say a big thank you to you for finding the time, as always, to traditionally take part in our conference, and i want to give you the floor, thank you, dear germanovskovich, dear friends, i am glad to welcome the participants international conference travel to the world, artificial intelligence, everyone who is present in this room or watching our meeting online, that’s what herman just said, scientists, engineers , programmers, students, schoolchildren from russia and more than 150 countries of the world, yes, the audience is huge , colossal, before i start my

speech, i would like to thank for the joint work with bier, alels in the field of artificial intelligence, the russian academy of sciences, teams of line ministries, heads of regions, and of course, representatives of scientific and business communities. in many ways, here on this platform we together formulated a systemic program in the field of artificial intelligence. and our common efforts are already bringing certain results. so, in recent years , the economic and social sectors. russia has expanded the use of artificial intelligence solutions by one and a half times. i will give a specific example, what is called from real life, from the real sector, the tech sector, for example, the gazprom neft company, using artificial technologies intelligence, managed to significantly reduce the costs of well development, solves complex security problems, safe

logistics along the north. sea ​​route and a number of other tasks. investments in high-tech business in the field of artificial intelligence in general are growing. and here the russian private equity fund is actively attracting co-investment. invests its own funds in domestic development companies, helps them develop global cooperation, enter foreign markets, including, and today especially in the markets of asia and the middle east. but the integral measurement of efforts is not only business indicators, but also the growing trust of people in a new end-to-end, universal , essentially revolutionary technology. right now it’s just gernovsky and me. they said, of course, with the introduction of artificial intelligence in science, education, healthcare, and

in all spheres of our lives, humanity is beginning a new chapter of its existence, these are, in my opinion, completely obvious things, but thank god, citizens see how artificial intelligence makes it easier and more convenient many everyday processes, improves the quality of management, the mechanism for providing public services, is increasingly used in organizations, enterprises, and in the work of regions. on our site i would like to sincerely congratulate the laureates of the artificial intelligence leader award, and these are young scientists and entire regions, like me already mentioned, which offer breakthrough solutions in the field of artificial intelligence. set ambitious guidelines for moving forward, i can’t resist just mentioning the names of the laureates, i know, this has already been in the media, however, alexander korotin

, alexander beznosikov, valentin - khrulkov, well, among the regions - these are tatorstan, bashkartastan, the lipetsk region, the sakhalin region and the khantamansi autonomous region. okrug, there are few regions that are so energetically investing in the development of all possibilities for using the capabilities of artificial intelligence, i hope that we will work more actively in this direction, when i say we, i mean not only the government, but also regions and industries production, individual enterprises, dear colleagues, now i would like to talk about how the government intends to carry out further work, well, in general , the country's leadership, the government, the administration, how we intend to develop domestic science, set up legislation, expand international cooperation, and above all , in relation to the practical topic

that is the main, main one at the current conference, i know that you are discussing a complex but very promising issue, the future of the so-called large language models, the further development of generative... artificial intelligence , now only young scientists, practitioners who work at the collection site talked about this, the further development of generative artificial intelligence for non-specialists, to whom, by the way, i include myself, but since i was forced dive into certain areas of activity in the field of artificial intelligence, i can only add that these are systems that allow you to create images and texts, now i’ll just say this again, and

colleagues talked about this in detail - they talked about it with examples, such directions were indicated - literally - they were identified literally a few years ago, but in just a year since our last meeting they began to dominate and open up, experts... call the ongoing processes a revolution, a technological shift, a cardinal breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence, i have already said that this is generally a new page in - in the development of humanity, today we are dealing with developments that have colossal computing abilities, more advanced software architecture, trained on all the information, on all the information and knowledge available, currently on the global, on the entire global internet. the widespread use of such technologies has already become an everyday reality, frankly, not everything turns out perfectly yet, but the models are constantly being improved, they perform both

applied and creative tasks, like generative artificial intelligence, already writing, generative artificial intelligence, just now they were talking, writing program code that generates drawings and parts gradually. begins to be used in the design of publications, reduces the time to find the best molecules for creating medicines, creates films, music and poetry. and i will emphasize this only in certain areas where the machine’s capabilities are equal to, and in some places they already exceed the capabilities of humans. in fact, algorithms and models of generative artificial intelligence are no longer primitive executors of our teams; new generation technologies are actually becoming partners, partners of people in a variety of fields, in a variety of areas, for business... states, today this is the most important, key

resource to become super effective, this will not hurt us, so using generative artificial intelligence, companies, enterprises can create products, services with special, unique characteristics at the request of a specific consumer, and of course such breakthrough solutions open the way to creation. production, significantly increase labor productivity in terms of public administration, here generative artificial intelligence technologies make it possible to fully move to data-based management and automate even more administrative procedures.

simply speed up decision-making processes several times over, and verified decisions based on big data, which means radically improving and changing the appearance of many areas that directly affect every citizen, and this is primarily the urban environment, public transport, the system of public services, ecology, education and healthcare, i will definitely also touch on the social implementation of breakthrough solutions, but i would immediately like to note that artificial intelligence will not replace a medical worker or teacher, however, it can serve as their faithful, effective assistant, provide the teacher with more time to raise children, help the doctor prevent, and identify diseases at an early stage , used for remote monitoring of people’s health, i emphasize, everyday implementation for the citizen. advanced generation of artificial intelligence is

a modern human-centric social sphere, this is a new quality of life and new opportunities for professional activity. in fact, a person can delegate many routine functions to a machine in everyday life, in production, in management, and even in the field of creative industries; on the contrary, they can take over themselves. tasks, this means that low-skilled jobs should be replaced by modern jobs that require serious knowledge, skills, competencies, and therefore a higher level of remuneration for specialists. in this sense, i want to especially emphasize this, automation is ubiquitous the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies is not only a resource for

strengthening our scientific and educational. technological, production potential, this is one of the most important conditions for the rapid growth of citizens' incomes, the formation of an economy of high wages in russia, improving the quality of life of people as the main goal of our development, now in the first part of our event, colleagues talked about the fact that and how it happens in the sphere of the artificial. and suggested asking a question, we just a little hesitated with ger noskavich, ask a question to the machine, this is the simplest question applicable to today’s agenda, how to make our country more efficient, all people happy, this is a question for artificial intelligence, this is such a broad question, but in order to make everything to achieve this, in the very near future, as one of the first steps, a presidential decree will be signed to approve a new... edition of the national strategy

for the development of artificial intelligence, taking into account the rapid growth of technology, in this the document will introduce a number of significant changes, the goals of the task will be specified, primarily we will talk about expanding fundamental and applied research in the field of generative artificial intelligence and large language models. i will name here a number of specific decisions and proposals: first: i ask the alliance government, the russian academy of sciences, to propose a mechanism that will ensure access for domestic scientists to existing ones being created in russia. and a supercomputer. graduate students should receive special benefits for using the computing infrastructure. students, schoolchildren who are already engaged in scientific and practical activities in the field of artificial intelligence. second, i would like to draw the attention of the government and

the alliance company, the current capacity of russian supercomputers should, of course, be increased by no less than an order of magnitude. this is critical for the further development of generative artificial intelligence. third: it is necessary to significantly expand the training of the strongest scientific developers. this task must be set before the leader of the first ranking of universities in terms of the quality of training of specialists in the field of artificial intelligence, these are the higher school of economics, moscow institute of physics and technology, itmo, moscow and st. petersburg state universities, as well. skoltech, i propose that universities with a high rating of the alliance, by september 1, 2024, expand their master’s and postgraduate programs to train personnel specifically in the field of developing artificial intelligence technologies, and also

, at the expense of the federal budget , increase the enrollment of students in basic programs in the field of artificial intelligence. fourth: we are ready to think about to change the structure of science funding to allocate additional funds for research and development in the field of generative art, artificial intelligence and large language models, provided that our leading companies undertake to co-finance such work, ensure testing of relevant technologies, and most importantly to based on the obtained... results, create breakthrough products that are competitive in comparison with the world's leading models. i would like to note that russia is now among those there are few, by the way, countries that have their own, their own generative artificial intelligence technologies and large language models.

these are developments of sberbank, just now they also talked about this, yagochat and kandinsky, as well as yandex - yandex gpt and masterpiece, we need to strengthen this competitive advantage of ours, create new markets based on such technologies, a whole constellation of service products. and above all, it’s about taking advantage of the most advanced technologies, increasing your efficiency, doctors, teachers, builders, i already spoke about this, agronomists, workers in industry, government administration and many other spheres could. in this regard, i propose to think about developing large industry models based on generative artificial intelligence, to propose mechanisms for their practical implementation in order to significantly increase labor productivity, and therefore wages in key

areas of the domestic economy. to speed up this process, i ask the governments and the alliance to form a special... educational program on the theory, practice of development and application of artificial intelligence with a special emphasis on large language and generative models. the students of such a program should be the heads of the largest companies, federal and regional authorities, universities and the system of secondary vocational education. these tools must be introduced in the broadest possible way, and training must begin already. in the first quarter of 2024, at the same time, as part of the preparation of a five-year forecast of personnel requirements, with the participation of business, of course , i ask you to analyze as carefully as possible where, in which industries, in the short term, the requirements for existing specialties will change and

new professions, skills, and new competencies will be required. based on this , the education system must be given specific tasks to change the program of career guidance and training of specialists. life is changing dramatically and we must be ahead of these changes, and of course we need to set up the entire system for supporting development, introducing large language language models for solutions in the field of generative artificial intelligence, create infrastructure for their widespread use. i ask that all these issues be reflected in... the data economy. dear friends. the new generation of artificial intelligence is extraordinary. human mind, but at the same time, we still think, well, actually, not that we still do, but we should think

about how a person will feel among machines, well, machines in the broad sense of the word, where are the boundaries development of artificial intelligence, such ethical, moral, social issues cause serious debate in our country, and throughout the world, there are even proposals to pause further work in the field of generative and especially the so-called strong artificial intelligence, which is predicted to have super-powerful cognitive abilities, as my colleagues have already said, smells feel a feeling of belonging to something, and such feelings that, as it were, only to a person... are already

beginning to appear there, but nevertheless, i i am convinced that the future does not lie in bans on the development of technology, it is simply impossible, it is impossible to ban it, it will still develop if we ban something, it will develop elsewhere, and we will only fall behind, that’s all, and this is how everyone who has opportunities to develop artificial intelligence. but, of course, it is necessary to ensure that in order to ensure the safety, reasonableness, creation and use of such technologies, the support here should include, and above all, traditional culture, it is the most a natural, ethical regulator of technological progress, as the ideals of goodness, respect for people, about which tolstoy, dostoevsky, chekhov wrote. such outstanding science fiction writers as belyaev and efremov, by the way, it is possible for artificial

intelligence to set tasks in this area, just as artificial intelligence should limit its scope of activity so as not to go beyond any limits that will cause harm to humans, the works of our outstanding writers, for many generations of scientists. were the moral guideline that allowed our country to achieve scientific triumphs, to use these achievements for the benefit of people, we are also talking about the peaceful atom, where our country is still the clear leader, which i want to especially note: in the era of the technological revolution, it is the cultural, spiritual heritage that is the key factor in preserving national identity, and therefore the diversity... of our world, the stability of international relations, but what facts we are facing, are already facing, now in practice this is

happening, i think you are well aware that some, so to speak, western search engines, as well as generative models, often work very selectively , biasedly, do not take into account, simply ignore and cancel russian, say, culture, in other words, the machine is given some kind of creative problem, it solves it using only the english-language array data, the one that is convenient and beneficial to system developers. thus, the algorithm, for example, can indicate to the machine that russia, the russia of our culture, science, music, literature, simply does not exist, a kind of abolition in the digital space, and then they can do the same with other cultures and other civilizations, sticking out themselves, emphasizing

their exclusivity in this space, such a xenophobe can result from artificial intelligence created according to some western standards and patterns. i repeat, many modern systems are trained on western data , designed for the western market, in the full sense of the word... this is that part of western ethics, those norms of behavior, public policy, to which we object, of course, monopoly dominance of such foreign developments in russia is unacceptable, dangerous and unacceptable. our domestic artificial intelligence models must reflect all the richness and diversity of world culture, heritage, knowledge, wisdom of all civilizations , then we will only become richer and more competitive, and of course, our traditional values, the richness and beauty

of the russian language, the languages ​​of other peoples of russia , they should form the basis of our developments. it is imperative to use russian solutions in the field of creating reliable, transparent and safe for humans artificial intelligence systems, as well as involve specialists in the humanities in the overall work . in this regard, i would like to note the joint project of the institutes of the russian academy of sciences and yandex, which created a colossal collection of texts, a national corpus of the russian language. i also think it is necessary that government at all levels, libraries and archives help create data sets for machine learning, providing them promptly and free of charge. i really ask my colleagues from the government to think over appropriate mechanisms for this work. dear friends, we will continue to strive to ensure that russia becomes one of the most comfortable jurisdictions in the world for the development of artificial intelligence, for

the bold search here for solutions that everyone needs. wherein. naturally, any threats to citizens must be minimized to preserve personal data, we constantly talk about this, therefore, on my instructions, the government has prepared changes to the law on experimental legal regimes in the field of digital innovation. installing such a mechanism will now be much easier, but in any case i hope that it will be much easier and almost twice as fast to remove. many unnecessary bureaucratic requirements, but at the same time liability is established for causing harm to health, life or property as a result of testing the use of breakthrough technologies. i consider this approach to be absolutely balanced and i ask the governments to quickly submit the prepared package of amendments to

the state duma, and i ask the deputies accept this document as much as possible. so that the decisions come into force as early as next 2024, at the same time, along with legislative decisions , the voluntary agreement of market participants around the key rules of the game when creating breakthrough technologies is of great importance, so when we talked about the need to create an alliance, at our previous meetings, it turned out that this was very correct and in demand. colleagues work effectively in this sense and i would like to note here the special role of these national codes in the field artificial intelligence, it was signed by both domestic companies, organizations, and participants from 16 countries of the world, i think there will be compliance with international ethical standards in the field of artificial intelligence, to achieve

balanced and justified regulation that will be used. of all, and not individual countries, i propose to discuss these issues in detail within the framework of the russian chairmanship of brix next year, we, as organizers of the work, this activity within the framework of the mentioned organization, of course, can do this, i’m sure our colleagues will support us, we definitely need to return to this topic at a future conference and make it a full-format one. a platform for regular discussion of the international agenda in the field of artificial intelligence, to discuss the ethical aspects of its use at a special international forum, which will now be held on a regular basis in our country. russia is ready, i want to emphasize once again, to share its experience, i know that sberbank, our scientific organizations, universities are actively developing

interaction with other countries, so a diagnostic system, for example, tyfunov, and it was created jointly with the russian academy of sciences at the far eastern federal university, has already been translated into several languages ​​of the world, i will also add that our plans are to create a code repository, domestic platforms and services that are needed for the interaction of domestic foreign programmers . i propose to think about the access of our partners from friendly countries to russian, large language and generative models, i am deeply convinced that the technological world, the technological world of the future, must to be multipolar, we must build it together on the basis of trust and mutually beneficial