Herman Gref:
“You know, here we always love to look for something like that, again, a pipe-pipe. But someone should make a tablecloth itself. And then make everything from our traditional drinks to the entire agricultural nomenclature.
And here we say “Artificial Intelligence” as a panacea, which is now to us, tomorrow suddenly something will undermine somewhere. Well, what artificial intelligence? I must say that the vast majority of our industries from artificial intelligence are at an absolutely inaccessible distance. Millions of light years. For the past two years, I have been analyzing a number of important enterprises for the past two years and I have been analyzing Gazprom Neft. But what we see inside - there are no basic principles of management. Now Andrei talked about the shipbuilding company now. Well, how can I raise labor productivity by 16 times? How? This means that she is there simply on the floor. This is bad news. In these enterprises, artificial intelligence can give very little.
The good news is that if you simply teach management elementary management principles, then you can make crazy jumps in performance, even 16 times. And I would not rely on any one technology that can be such a gold key that will open all the doors. Artificial intelligence technology is a cherry on the cake. If there is no cake, then there is nowhere to put the cherry. The cake must be baked first. It is necessary to solve the basic problems of management. You need to digitize your processes. And only after that can you really use the technology of artificial intelligence. "
