Russia launches its artificial intelligence, it’s called GigaChat and it seems to be the meme of the alpha male

Russia takes the field and creates its artificial intelligence. Is called GigaChat it’s already the name it’s all a program. How every chatbot created after November 2022 has been christened “the rival of ChatGPT“. On the other hand, it is known that the tech sector has become the new geopolitical front to contend for supremacy and so Russia presents the champion in the competition created in its image and likeness. It is now essential for the country to have its own program of generative artificial intelligence, even if ChatGPT can speak Russian is not the same thing.

The new technology was released by the Institute of Russian credit Sberbank (SBER.MM), and the system is still in the testing phase, so it can only be used by users who have received an invitation. In reality, however, the choice of name already gives interesting clues, in fact it seems a reference to GigaChad, the meme of the virile, brawny, and scornful archetype that has become a testosterone icon on the web. A superman 2.0 who perfectly embodies the Russian propagandathe one who peddles photos of Putin while hunting or playing judo as an example of a model man.

Why Russia needs its own chatbot

Sberbank explained that GigaChat is able to communicate in Russian better than other chatbots launched on the market. The bank has been investing in new technologies for some time reduce the country’s dependence on imports. A move that proved to be strategic, especially after the Russian attack on Ukraine which prompted Western nations to impose punitive sanctions and block exports to hinder Moscow. Sberbank is well aware of this, in fact the bank has been excluded from the system for more than a year international financial transactions Swift.

In reality, ChatGPT also speaks Russian, but it is not the same thing, because the language even for chatbots goes beyond simple translation. It is the synthesis of a culture, and in fact Sberbank has chosen to create an AI model specifically designed to meet the needs of businesses and users in the country, and which operates on Russian servers. In fact, each software is trained on a selection of texts, texts that influence the responses of the chatbots. So it’s clear that if a program like ChatGPT was built on predominantly American readings, even when it translates conversations into Russian, the concept it conveys will be influenced by the reference culture. This is why it is necessary for Russia, but also for China, in short for those countries that take sides against Western culture create chatbots that speak their languagein all senses.

He even GigaChad

The name seems to recall GigaChad (only one letter changes), the meme that has managed to perfectly embody the stereotype of the alpha male. She has become an icon with monstrous muscle mass and definition, granite face, and plastic movements. A titan of masculinity, baptized by users GigaChad, or the chad among the chads, the most man of menstarting with a thread on Reddit from 2017.

The GigaChad meme is built on shots of Ernest Khalimova bodybuilder and an underwear model of Russian origin, whose physiognomy has been computer altered together with that of other models within an artistic project created by the photographer Krista Sudmali. Now all the imagery that revolves around GigaChad adheres to the Russian idea of ​​the predominant and virile male, an image that the same Vladimir Putin tries to embody when he is immortalized shirtless with freshly caught fish in his hand or while shooting at the shooting range in the region of Ryazan. Machismo is a founding trait of Russian propaganda, so it wouldn’t be surprising if GigaChat were nothing more than a virtual extension of the alpha male.