Dmitry Masyuk, Director of the Business Group for Search and Advertising Technologies at Yandex, believes that in the next few years, the "Alice" voice assistant will become so intelligent that it will be difficult to distinguish it from a human.
I think that in many aspects this is already the case, and in a small number of years, on most conceivable topics, it will be difficult to distinguish "Alice" from a human, and she will pass the Turing test.
The top manager believes that the growth in the quality of responses from neural network models is explosive, and now, on some average topic, a neural network will support a conversation almost better than a human. And Dmitry Masyuk is not afraid of this rate of development of neural networks.
I definitely have no fear, I have some kind of reverence for what is happening, because it is happening under my leadership and my teams... Of course, there are risks here, but let's see what happens.
In May of this year, Yandex added its YandexGPT neural network to the virtual assistant: "Alice" learned to write texts and suggest ideas practically at the level of a human.
