Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Novosibirsk State University –
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Yesterday, Novosibirsk State University hosted a meeting with the president of the InfoWatch group of companies and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab Natalya Kasperskaya, who came to Novosibirsk to participate in the international forum for technological development Technoprom-2025.
During her visit to the university, she became acquainted with the developments of NSU innovation centers, including the Center for Artificial Intelligence, discussed possible options for cooperation with the university and held a meeting with students, teachers and staff of the university, where they discussed a number of current issues in the field of information technology and ensuring Russia's technological sovereignty.
— To develop the information technology industry, we need a developed ecosystem with different layers. This includes the production of element base, our own developed microelectronic industry, and the presence of research centers, laboratories, including in universities, where fundamentally new solutions are created, and, of course, a system for training personnel who are focused on the development of IT here, with us. We practically do not have this ecosystem, domestic microelectronics is dying, it was not so much Russian as foreign companies that invested in education, and a whole generation of specialists grew up who believe that we have nothing of our own, all the optimal solutions and technologies are created in the West. And now we need to do something about it, — Natalya Kasperskaya shared her position.
She admitted that she does not see any quick and easy ways out of the current situation, but noted that certain steps are being taken. At first, the departure of Western companies opened up space for growth for Russian developers, but this growth not only led to a multiple increase in income, but also exacerbated the shortage of personnel in the industry.
— Now the state, represented by the Ministry of Digital Development, intends to stimulate IT companies to more actively participate in the training of future specialists. “Companies with a turnover of over a billion rubles a year have been given a simple condition — if they do not cooperate with universities, they will be deprived of accreditation, which means a significant increase in taxes paid. Moreover, this cooperation cannot be limited to supplying universities with equipment and software. IT companies will be required to send employees to teach at universities, organize internships and invest in research and development,” she explained.
This year, this format will be tested as a pilot at a number of large companies, and from next year it will become mandatory for all those whose revenue exceeds a billion. But this will only affect IT companies that have already firmly established themselves in the market, and will not affect startups.
Also during the meeting, they discussed the prospects for the development of generative artificial intelligence, primarily large language models like ChatGPT. According to Natalya Kaspersky, this technology is greatly overestimated and in the near future it will face a stage of decline and a certain disappointment.
— At first, while the same ChatGPT was trained with texts created by people, it showed impressive results, then, when neural networks began to learn on content generated by other neural networks, the quality began to fall. But if you do not remove people from this process, then the very meaning of using neural networks is lost, — she emphasized. And she suggested that it would be more relevant and useful to focus on the development of other artificial intelligence technologies, in particular, autonomous control systems for unmanned vehicles, the use of AI in processing medical analysis data and other areas where it will take on routine work, but issue recommendations, rather than make decisions.
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