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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
The lecture on the topic “Forecast 2045: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and… Physics” for students and postgraduates of SPbPU was given by the famous physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific director of the National Center of Physics and Mathematics Alexander Sergeev.
Introducing the guest to the students, the rector of SPbPU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy noted that the event was organized with the support of the Rosatom State Corporation as part of the Time of Science project and was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the nuclear industry.
I am confident that this significant meeting will give a special impetus to both students and employees to develop their research activities to ensure Russia’s technological sovereignty, Andrei Ivanovich emphasized.
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In his lecture, Alexander Sergeev reviewed the challenges facing modern physics and technologies using artificial intelligence that are changing our present and future. He quoted the famous physicist Vitaly Ginzburg, who identified three problems of all sciences: the irreversibility of time; the problem of interpreting and understanding quantum mechanics; the problem of reductionism – the question of the connection between physics and biology. And today, Alexander Sergeev emphasized, science is looking for answers to the questions of what is life and what is thought. And an important role here is given to physics, which allows us to describe a very complex system in the simplest possible way.
Alexander Mikhailovich spoke about modern trends in the development of artificial intelligence technologies, describing their pros and cons. The main advantage is the acceleration and optimization of all processes, and the main problem that the academician identified is depriving people of the ability to make decisions and take responsibility.
It is possible that there will be a very thin layer of people who own and manage information, then a powerful machine layer and 99% of people who will be a crowd living according to the laws and algorithms dictated to them, chosen by artificial intelligence. To prevent this, one must remain a thinking and critical person, and not trust all decisions to artificial intelligence.
After the lecture, which also presented the latest developments of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and answered questions from students, Alexander Sergeev held a meeting with the scientific community of SPbPU. The scientist spoke about the key areas of the scientific program of the NCPhM and projects for the creation of advanced laboratories and installations of the “midiscience” and “megascience” class, about schools and seminars for students based at the National Center for Physics and Mathematics. Alexander Mikhailovich called on students and scientists of the university to participate more actively in scientific events of the NCPhM and invited them to the XXVI Kharitonov Thematic Scientific Readings “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Technical, Industrial, Natural and Social Systems”, which will be held on April 14-18 this year in Sarov.
The busy program of the visit of the scientific director of the NCFM also included a visit to the Peter the Great SPbPU Supercomputer Center, accompanied by the first vice-rector of the university Vitaly Sergeev and a meeting with the vice-rector for digital transformation Alexey Borovkov, where they discussed prospects for cooperation, including in the field of creating digital twins.
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