Artificial Intelligence Institute ARI

The Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence AIRI (formerly the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Sberbank) is a Russian autonomous non-profit organization engaged in basic and applied research in the field of artificial intelligence. The main goal of the institute is to create universal AI systems for solving real world problems.

History

2022: Over 90 researchers

As of February 2022, more than 90 researchers are involved in the institute's research projects to work together with the global development community, academic and industrial partners.

2020: Announcement of the opening of Russia's first AI institute

On December 3, 2020, the head of Sberbank German Gref announced the opening of Russia's first artificial intelligence institute. The educational institution will work in Moscow in January 2021.

In the near future, we will open the first Institute of AI in Russia with the involvement of leading domestic and world scientists. The main mission of the institute is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to research to create general artificial intelligence, "the Sberbank press service quoted Gref as saying.

At first, the institute will be academic, that is, fundamental research will be carried out there, focused on their applied application in the activities of mankind.

Sberbank opens Russia's first artificial intelligence institute

The German and Swiss scientist, one of the world's most famous specialists in the field of artificial intelligence, Jürgen Schmidhuber, agreed to become the scientific director of the Institute. He works at the Dalle Molle Institute for the Study of Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) in Lugano. The scientist also heads the company Nnaisense, which develops large-scale neural networks for business automation.

Earlier in 2020, Sberbank, together with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), developed a roadmap according to which by 2024 the bank will earn 448 billion rubles using artificial intelligence.

German Gref in early December noted that the Sberbank ecosystem company is conducting more than a thousand research projects in the field of artificial intelligence, and for every 15 rubles invested in the development of Data Science teams, an additional income of 100 rubles is generated.

According to Gref, Sberbank has introduced internal ethics principles in the development of projects in the field of artificial intelligence. An ad hoc working group will be established to implement the principles and a series of global consultations will be planned.^[1]

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