The Yandex team has announced an updated version of the caller ID in the application with the "Alice" voice assistant. Now the identifier has become more accurate, and the database of numbers is updated much faster.
The developers point out that the service database has increased by 50% and reached 17 million numbers. Of these, more than 5 million were used at least once for surveys, advertising, or fraud. In the case of a call from fraudsters or intrusive advertising, the AON algorithm in 95% of cases will determine its negative nature and issue a notification.
The algorithm is able to warn about both negative (fraudsters, advertising, spam) and useful (delivery, medical institutions, banks) calls in dozens of different categories. Yandex emphasizes that the application interacts only with its own contact database and feedback left by users.
Dmitry Timko, head of the Yandex application and "Browser", said:
Now the identifier works with a real-time database. Information about numbers gets into it four times faster. For example, if our algorithms learn about a new number of attackers, Android smartphone owners will begin to see the "Suspicion of fraud" mark within a few minutes after that.