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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
Employees Center for Artificial Intelligence of Novosibirsk State University (NSU Center for Information Technologies) received a patent for a utility model of an electronic computing device for detecting defects in urban infrastructure and making decisions on how to eliminate them.
— In essence, this is a hybrid boxed solution, which is an intelligent system that, using video recording cameras installed in the city and a specially trained neural network, can identify various defects in urban infrastructure and utility lines with great accuracy (non-working light poles or traffic lights, potholes in the roads, etc.), and then, using a logical-semantic block, formulate a solution to eliminate these problems, — said one of the authors of the development, head of the research department of the Sigma project at the NSU Center for Information Technologies, PhD in Physics and Mathematics Andrey Nechesov.
“Sigma” is a flagship project, a framework for developing digital twins of smart cities, which allows integrating other practical implementations using the API mechanism. As emphasized by the NSU Center for Informatics, the framework is not only an engineering solution, but also a very serious scientific project based on the achievements of the Siberian school of artificial intelligence, headed by academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu. L. Ershov and S. S. Goncharov.
The success of ChatGPT and DeepSeek and other large language models (LLM) has generated a lot of interest in this area. LLM capabilities are constantly growing, and today they are already solving a number of important problems. Of course, this is a huge success, but there is a downside to the models themselves – the black box problem, the hallucination problem, the audit problem, deepfakes, and so on. Therefore, in vital areas, these intelligent systems should be used with caution or under the control of more reliable systems, say, based on logic, which would partially or completely check the work of the LLM. This is the approach taken by the participants of the Sigma project.
— By combining the vast experience of my colleague and co-author of the patent Andrey Andreev in inventing and managing large industrial enterprises, as well as my experience in mathematics, blockchain technologies, smart contracts and building trusted intelligent systems, we outlined a plan for formalizing and implementing key aspects in building a framework and simultaneously patenting them, — noted Andrey Nechesov.
The first stage of the plan was an electronic computing device for detecting defects in urban infrastructure; work is currently underway on several more useful models and inventions. As a result, a whole line of solutions will be formed, which will then be integrated into the Sigma framework and can be used to optimize monitoring and management of the state of the urban environment.
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