
‘Like Electricity, AI Can Bring Incredible Benefits’
Developments in the field of artificial intelligence are gradually taking over the world. AI has the potential to bring incredible benefits to the global economy and our quality of life, but it also creates new challenges. Panos Pardalos, Professor at the University of Florida, Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis (Nizhny Novgorod), covered these issues, along with other related topics, in his recent report.

Alexander Shokhin: Legalising Mining as Entrepreneurial Activity Is Crucial
Professor Alexander Shokhin, President of HSE University and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), participated in the Digital Security Law Forum at MGIMO University. He discussed the integration of digital finance and digital financial assets into the country's economic landscape and advocated for the legalisation of cryptocurrency mining as a form of entrepreneurial activity.

Russian Researchers Improve Neural Networks' Spatial Navigation Performance
Researchers at HSE University, MISiS National University of Science and Technology, and the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI) have developed an enhanced approach to reinforcement learning for neural networks tasked with navigation in three-dimensional environments. By using the attention mechanism, they managed to improve the performance of a graph neural network by 15%. The study results have been published in IEEE Access.