On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the West holds a “dangerous” monopoly on artificial intelligence and emphasized the necessity for Russia to utilize its own technology to counterbalance Western chatbots, which he described as “biased.”
Russia must rival ‘dangerous’ Western AI: Since the revolutionary introduction of the ChatGPT generative chatbot last year, the competition to develop AI has intensified, with China and Russia investing billions to challenge American leadership in the space.
Putin said at a Moscow AI conference, “I think you are well aware that some Western search engines, as well as some generative models, often work in a very selective, biassed way.”
“They don’t consider Russian culture, and occasionally they just ignore and cancel it. According to him, “a lot of contemporary systems are trained on Western data for the Western market.”
He urged Russia to be “ahead of the curve,” saying that the monopolistic dominance of such foreign creations in the country is unacceptable, harmful, and inadmissible.
Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine has caused severe damage to the country’s IT sector.
Western sanctions have prevented access to computer parts, and thousands of IT professionals have left to escape military mobilisation.
Putin has urged Moscow to stop relying on Western technology on several occasions, and in September he gave the go-ahead for his government to allocate funds for the creation of supercomputers and artificial intelligence research.
Due to ChatGPT’s success, other Internet companies and venture capitalists rushed to create their own chatbots, and investors poured money into a wide range of AI initiatives.
However, The largest bank in Russia, Sber, revealed in April that its own conversational AI software, named “Gigachat,” will be available in test mode only.
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