**Russian Railways Introduces Virtual Assistant Valera at Digital Industry Exhibition **
Russian Railways (RZD) unveiled a virtual assistant named Valera at the “Digital Industry of Industrial Russia” exhibition. Valera is a digital human with extensive knowledge about railways, capable of answering questions regarding documentation. RZD sees Valera as a human-machine interface of the future, representing the next phase of development. The assistant’s appearance was created using a neural network that generated it from numerous photographs of railway workers. Valera has the potential to serve as a voice assistant on phones or be integrated into training systems.
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