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he discovery of this phenomenon, which does not yet have a generally accepted name, was reported at the conference "Data Economy. Challenges and Prospects" by Eduard Shantayev, Director of the Federal State Autonomous Institution "Federal Center for Applied Development of Artificial Intelligence" of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. He noted that scoring the use of key cross-cutting technologies using reports collected by the state information system "Industry" helped to identify this kind of practice.

Director of the croatia whatsapp number database Department for the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Sergey Sergienko acknowledged the existence of such practices. According to him, this is the flip side of the hype around AI technologies, which, however, is more useful, since it attracts new personnel to this area, which is in short supply.

The practice of mandatory implementation of AI is included in the list of performance indicators (KPI) not only of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, but also of other departments. In particular, the federal Ministry of Health required the health departments of 84 regions of the Russian Federation to purchase at least two systems or medical devices using AI in 2023. As Oliya Artemova, Deputy Director of the Digital Development Department of the Ministry of Health of Russia, noted at the XIV Congress of Oncologists and Radiologists of the CIS and Eurasia, as of the end of April 2024, only 58 actually used at least one of them.

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By the end of 2023, 84 Russian regions had purchased medical products using artificial intelligence. 58 subjects of the Russian Federation actually use such products, 14 of which use two or more. The most common class of solutions are medical decision support systems, and among the initially non-medical services are voice assistants and chatbots.

Deputy Director of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Development under the Government of the Russian Federation, Head of the Group for Monitoring the Implementation of the National Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Oleg Li called the level of AI penetration in Russia low. He cited Rosstat data, according to which only 7% of Russian enterprises use AI, while among large and medium-sized enterprises it reaches 30%.
Oleg Li stated that such a low level is largely due to objective reasons. Among them, he particularly highlighted the personnel shortage and the lack of computing power. The shortage of personnel in the field of AI, according to Oleg Li, is at the level of 70 thousand people. He also drew attention to the fact that the education sector has learned to produce only entry-level specialists, or "juniors", while the market needs more highly qualified specialists.

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