Leading AI researchers from around the world united at an international foresight session in St. Petersburg ahead of SPIEF.
The foresight session brought together top AI experts from 17 countries, such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Morocco and others.
The event identified the prospects for the global evolution of AI in the coming years, and enabled stakeholders to create a unique community of AI experts from the BRICS+ countries. The foresight session was aimed at identifying top priority AI tracks and their further potential.
The foresight session at TechHub is the next round of AI Horizons, an international foresight session driving science and technology. The event continued the international scientific dialogue that started this year in Morocco as part of Gitex Africa and will go on in the form of international conferences in the UAE, Serbia and China.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation, comments: “Breakthrough scientific research underlies technological leadership, the national goal that the President has set for us. Russia is ready to share its vision of the future development of AI science. Last year, experts identified ten key tracks driving AI science globally. These were the basis for the international foresight program.”
Andrey Belevtsev, senior vice-president, head of technological development at Sberbank, says: “Today, more than 50 leading experts from 17 countries have come to meet in St. Petersburg. This is a truly hallmark event: a cumulative Hirsch index this high among participants has only been seen at the world’s largest scientific forums. This conference has made it possible to establish a one-of-a-kind BRICS+ AI community, and I am confident that we will soon see results: productive discussions along with real-life projects and joint scientific papers.”
The event featured working groups attended by foreign scientists and top Russian scientists from Sber, AIRI, Skoltech, Alfa-Bank, T-Bank, ITMO University, Moscow State University, HSE University, Steklov Mathematical Institute and more.
The international foresight session covered the following areas:
- Architecture, machine learning algorithms, optimisation and mathematics
- Computations for AI
- Data for AI
- Fundamental and generative models
- Security, trust, and explainability
- AI for specific tasks
- Control, decision-making, and agent/multi-agent systems
- AGI elements
- Human-machine interaction