At the Government session chaired by Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov, the Concept on introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in various spheres of the country's economy was adopted. Minister of Science and Higher Education Sayasat Nurbek made a report on the development of science and technology in Kazakhstan, primeminister.kz reports.
According to him, the work is carried out in three main directions. First of all, the Consortium for the programme ‘Building a model of modern large language (KazLLM) was created to collect data. It includes the Institute of Information and Computing Technologies, Satbayev University, Nazarbayev University, NNPC "Til-Kazyna" named after Shayakhmetov, Baitursynov Institute of Linguistics and KazNU.
To fill data arrays for "KazLLM" the Consortium, universities and state bodies are transferring data to the information-analytical system "Smart Data Ukimet".
During these 6 months, about 1 billion special word uses have been submitted. The second important direction is, of course, staff training. To date, 15 educational programmes have been implemented in 17 higher education institutions in the areas of "Applied Artificial Intelligence", "AI and Blockchain Engineering", "Cybernetics and AI", "AI in Medicine" and others. There are 2,196 students, including 2,091 bachelors, 82 masters and 23 doctoral students. From this year, a special quota will be introduced within the Bolashak programme," the minister said.
The programmes are developed with the involvement of foreign partner universities. For example, in Kyzylorda University "Korkyt Ata" opened School of Informatics and Information Technology of Seoul National University of Science and Technology. New educational programmes "Information Systems", "Cyber Security", "Computer Science and Programming" and "Informatics" are being jointly introduced. This year, 30 scholarships were awarded.
In March 2024, a branch of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) was established in KazUTZU named after Satpayev, developing the programme "Artificial Intelligence". This year, 50 grants will be allocated. In addition, an international research centre on AI will open at Serikbayev State Technical University in September As part of the establishment of the Luban workshop, it is planned to create an engineering centre for Smart Driving Technologies to use artificial intelligence in driving," Sayasat Nurbek said.
In addition, the Lomonosov Moscow State University has developed a programme "Computing Technologies and Information Technology Methods", which will be implemented in the 2024-2025 academic year. In September 2024, IT University Astana will sign a cooperation agreement with the University of Genoa to develop an IT programme in business.
The third direction is the introduction of a small supercomputer programme on the basis of the Kazakh university. At Satbaev University, the computing cluster is used for complex calculations in various fields. In 2015, an Indian national company installed a PARAM BILIM supercomputer on the basis of Gumilyov National University. Equipment from Singapore with 100 times more power will arrive in the next month. The largest supercomputer with a capacity of 2 petaflops will arrive in Almaty this autumn. A contract has been signed between KazNU named after Al-Farabi and our partners from China," the Minister summarised.
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