Coursera analysed the level of training of
IT-specialists in various fields around the world. In the overall rating,
Russia is recognized as the country with the most highly qualified developers
in the field of software development and data management. This is due to the
high quality of technical education in universities in Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, Tomsk and Novosibirsk.

 
 The most trending skills in the field of
technology analysts include artificial intelligence and convolutional neural
networks, and in the field of Data Science — deep learning and natural language
processing.

 
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Coursera

Russia took first place in the "Technology" and "Data Science" categories in the Coursera global skills index

The Sberbank Health service and the SberCloud
cloud platform have launched a&nbsp;project to recognize CT scans of the lungs.

 
 As specified in Sberbank, this will allow any
user to upload their CT image to the site and get its decryption within 5-10
minutes. The result will be sent to&nbsp;email&nbsp;and to the site interface
after the analysis is completed. The system uses artificial intelligence
algorithms developed in the Laboratory on artificial intelligence of the
savings Bank, and runs on the computing power of a supercomputer
"Сhristafari".

 
 The system shows the percentage of the affected
part of the lungs, determines the affected areas of the lungs (frosted glass
and consolidation) and calculates their total volume. This analysis will allow
the user to independently assess the dynamics during repeated CT examination in
order to monitor the development of the disease. Doctors service will
help&nbsp;to decipher pictures of patients.

 
 <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/sberbank-zapustil-besplatnyi-servis-po-raspoznavaniiu-snimkov-kt/">Original (in Russian)</a>

Sberbank

Sberbank has launched a free service for recognizing CT images

This conclusion was
reached by the authors of the study "AI Technologies in medicine and
healthcare: Russia's position on the global patent and publication
landscape", who analyzed scientific publications and patents in the field
of medical artificial intelligence from 2010 to 2019.

 
 Insights:

<ul>
 <li>Russia ranks 27th in the world in terms of the number of publications
devoted to the use of AI in healthcare. The top 5 are: USA, UK, China, Germany,
Canada. To enter the top 5 countries in terms of publication activity in Russia,
you need to increase the number of publications by more than 6 times.</li>
</ul>

<ul>
 <li>The largest number of scientific publications on the topic
"Computer science, artificial intelligence" (since the technology is
multidisciplinary) in Russia belongs to the Russian Academy of Sciences (1370),
ITMO University (496) and HSE (343).</li>
</ul>

<ul>
 <li>The largest portfolio of patent documents in the field of "AI in
medicine" — 9 patent families belongs to the Federal state institution of
eye microsurgery of&nbsp;S. N. Fedorov.</li>
</ul>

<ul>
 <li>The main competitive advantages of Russia on the world stage are the
presence of a large number of highly qualified specialists in the field of AI.</li>
</ul>

 
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ICT.Moscow

More than 4 thousand publications and 12 thousand patents in the world are in the field of medical artificial intelligence

Specialists of the
center for diagnostics and telemedicine of the Moscow Healthcare Department conducted a survey of patients as part of a Moscow experiment on the use of
computer vision technology in medicine.

 
 Among respondents who
positively assess the use of AI in healthcare, 80% called the use of this
technology appropriate, 70% said that the quality of medical care has improved.

 
 Anna Meshcheryakova, CEO
of Third Opinion (participant of the Moscow experiment on the use of AI in
medicine):

 
 "One of the goals
of applying the experimental legal regime (EPR) is called "testing digital
innovations for their accelerated implementation". EPR allows you to apply
innovative services without their presence in the order of medical care,
clinical recommendations and standards of medical care."​

 
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Moscow News Agency

50% of Muscovites positively rate the use of AI in medicine

Sberbank has
obtained a patent for a method and system for creating facial expressions based
on text. It use in the digital counterpart of the TV presenter -
"Elena". This <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/abulaphia/posts/10157436146886914">was written</a> on Facebook by Albert Efimov, head of the
Sberbank robotics laboratory.

 
 The patent
describes a technology that receives information from at least one speech
signal, processes it, and generates changes to the "face mask" on a
virtual head model. In other words, it is a technology for creating a virtual
image of a speaker who speaks a given text.

 
 In the
comments, there is concern that Sberbank's patent may become an obstacle to the
development of other companies in this direction.

 
 Sberbank introduced
the virtual TV presenter "Elena", created using this technology, in
April 2019. Then " Elena» hosted several SberNews news releases.

 
 In 2018,
Sberbank together with MIPT showed a robot under the working name
"Nika", which answered the questions of the interlocutor and showed
various emotions.

 
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Sberbank has patented a technology for creating human facial expressions based on text in Russia

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RU">Infrastructure project iPavlov in 2017 received a grant in the amount of 500 million roubles from Russian venture company and the savings bank. The bank also became an industrial partner of the project. The library for developing dialog systems is one of the products of the iPavlov research project. 

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RB.ru

Сo-founder and former head of the business department of the iPavlov AI project, will launch a new company

Russian
President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian government to ratify a
Federal project "Artificial intelligence". As a result of the meeting
on the development of information and communication technologies and
communications, which took place on June 10, the President issued an
instruction to the government to "take exhaustive measures to approve a
separate Federal project "Artificial intelligence", providing the
necessary funding, including from the Federal budget funds provided for the
implementation of the national program "Digital economy of the Russian
Federation" (the implementation period is until August 31, 2020).

 
 The
government was also instructed to work on the issue of "developing a set
of measures to promote the introduction of innovative software, including
artificial intelligence technologies, into the activities of medical
organizations" (until August 3, 2020).

 
 <a target="_blank" href="https://ict.moscow/news/podpisan-zakon-ob-eksperimentalnykh-pravovykh-rezhimakh-v-sfere-tsifrovykh-innovatsii/">Original (in Russian)</a>

kremlin.ru

Vladimir Putin instructed the government to ratify Federal project "Artificial intelligence"

It can turn on music, audiobooks, fairy tales, plan the day, find out the news, manage smart home devices and suggest facts that can be found on the Internet. In the near future, it is planned to add a voice call function, control of TV set-top boxes, etc.

 
 "Marvin" will run on smart speakers, which the company announced at the end of 2019 earlier. Sales of smart assistant speakers will start later. Now "Marvin" can be installed as an app on smartphone.

 
 Yandex was the first Russian company to introduce a speaker with voice assistant "Alice" in may 2018. Last year, sales of speakers could reach 320 thousand units, and the market volume — $33 million, the company Just AI <a target="_blank" href="https://just-ai.com/en/russian_smart_speaker_market.pdf">estimated</a>.

 
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MTS has released its own voice assistant — "Marvin"

Digital Leader, PwC Russia, IDC, and CROC have conducted a joint research to find out which technologies will have the greatest influence on the Russian business sector and job market by 2030. The research indicates that Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning (AI&amp;ML) will cause the most dramatic changes within Russian companies, followed closely by Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). In 10 years, more than half of employees in Russia will be working remotely. Moreover, 89% of respondents claim that up to 50% of jobs will be replaced by robots and AI, primarily call center agents, salespersons, cashiers, consultants, accountants, drivers, machine operators, and secretaries. However, Russia will need IT specialists, engineers, doctors, bioengineers, geneticists, data analysts, cybersecurity specialists, as well as psychologists and teachers. Most respondents graded Russian business digitalization as ‘satisfactory’.

 
 Respondents graded current Russian business digitalization and innovation development at 3.2 out of 5 stars, claiming that the finance, retail and FMCG, telecom, and mass media and entertainment sectors are most successful in this area.

 
 Research participants were asked to assess various innovation adoption obstacles on the scale of 0 to 5. Inflexible and slow business processes turned out to be the main obstacle to digital transformation both today and over the coming 10 years, being awarded 3.77 and 2.83 stars, respectively.

 
 Lack of digitalization budgets is also hindering this process (3.62 points) and will continue to do so over the coming years (2.76 points). By 2030, regulations will become yet another obstacle to innovation (2.72 points).

 
 Most respondents believe that, over the next 10 years, AI&amp;ML will influence business the most (4.42 out of 5 points), saying that Russia will have an AI tax or license and a marketplace for AI models by 2030.

 
 According to experts, IoT will drive major change within Russian companies (3.96 points). For example, within five years, it will become common to use IoT-based systems for contactless reading of information on any person you meet at an offline event.

 
 Research participants awarded RPA 3.91 stars as a Russian business influencer, suggesting that robots will be answering 95% of all contact center calls by 2025.

 
 Over the coming 10 years, new technologies will mainly transform IT, marketing, customer support, and accounting departments within Russian companies.

 
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Research: technologies that will have the greatest influence on the Russian business sector and job market by 2030

An experimental base for testing “smart” vehicles will be built in Russia for 600 million rubles. It will be built in NAMI testing area by September 2022. The project is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and car manufacturers. Today almost all manufacturers have models with advanced driver assistance systems and communication for data exchange, the experts claim.

 
 On the basis of NAMI testing ground, a model of urban traffic with smart infrastructure equipped with V2X technology - data exchange with cars (data on the speed, brakes and components wear , driving video recording, etc.) - will be created. The total length of the road within the testing area will be 20 km. The test site will allow to carry out full-sale tests with simulation of many road situations, test vehicle automation components and systems analyzing the behavior of highly-automated vehicles.

 
 Project executors are NAMI, NP GLONASS and “Smarts” company.

 
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A testing area for autonomous cars will be created in Russia

This <a target="_blank" href="https://www.comnews.ru/content/207711/2020-06-22/2020-w26/virus-uskoril-cifrovizaciyu-tek">conclusion was made</a> by Jet Infosystems analysts after they analyzed the projects that use artificial intelligence and machine learning for the past six months, which were realized in Russia and CIS countries. The activity declined during the pandemic (from the beginning of March to the end of May) in all sectors except fuel and energy complex and industry.

 
 According to the survey, fuel and energy industry took the first place in terms of the number of project (20% of the total amount). AI technologies are implemented not only by large (Rosneft, Tatneft, Gazprom Neft), but also by medium-sized companies. The projects include predictive analytics for equipment repair and field development, digital design, smart meters, etc.

 
 So far, the number of projects in 2020 corresponds to last year’s figures, but it will be lessened in the second half of the year due to coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn. This is explained by the long-term nature of the projects.

 
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Jet Infosystems

The fuel and energy industry in Russia has the largest number of projects in the field of AI

COVID-Tech in Russia: technologies against the pandemic

226 Russian cases of technology application in different areas have already been translated into English. Each case has a detailed description of implementation, information about the developer, object for implementation, technologies and the results achieved. For the sake of convenience, all practices were divided in functional areas (manufacturing industry, telecom, urban environment, transport, social sector, MedTech, FinTech, etc.). 20 practices were allocated to a separate group called “COVID-Tech” to show the different ways AI-tools may help fight with the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
 In addition, the collection of 45 Russian open datasets for configuring smart services is now also available in English. Among them there is a dataset for autonomous vehicles training in bad weather conditions.

 
 The English version of the practices base will be useful for studying the domestic AI solutions market, main market players, sharing experience between Russian and foreign partners, and also for international rankings compilers and reviewers.

 
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Russian AI practices are now available on ICT.Moscow

Moscow high-tech solutions platform ICT.Moscow opened access to the <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/projects/ai" target="_blank">base of artificial intelligence </a>(AI) application practices in business for the world community.

175 Russian cases of technology application in different areas have already been translated into English. Each case has a detailed description of implementation, information about the developer, object for implementation, technologies and the results achieved. For the sake of convenience, all practices were divided in functional areas (manufacturing industry, telecom, urban environment, transport, social sector, MedTech, FinTech, etc.).

In addition, the collection of 45 Russian open datasets for configuring smart services is now also available in English. Among them there is a dataset for autonomous vehicles training in bad weather conditions.

The English version of the practices base will be useful for studying the domestic AI solutions market, main market players, sharing experience between Russian and foreign partners, and also for international rankings compilers and reviewers.

ICT.Moscow analysts collect data on Russian practices from open sources with the direct participation of representatives of Russian companies developing AI solutions. The <a href="https://ict.moscow/projects/ai/" target="_blank">Russian version</a>, that includes international practices, was launched at the end of February 2020, and in less than three months it has been viewed over 40 thousand times by AI experts and specialists.&nbsp;

In January 2020 ICT.Moscow and the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/projects/5g" target="_blank">launched</a> 5G knowledge base in English. The project features a showcase of practices, which includes Russian cases of 5G implementation for solving various business tasks.&nbsp;

Russian AI practices are now available to English-speaking audience

In Moscow, an artificial intelligence system that can detect coronavirus from x-rays has started working, according to the mos.ru.

According to Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the capital has started using computed tomography to diagnose COVID-19. To do this, 45 COVID centers have been deployed in the city, where CT offices work around the clock.

If the results are positive, this experience can be extended to other regions.

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