Issues of complex research in digitalization of adaptive viticulture when implementing artificial intelligence tools

In recent years, digital technologies and modern computer technologies capable of processing large amounts of data have been intensively adopted. At present, specialists deal with the latest technological advances, including neural networks, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. This creates the need to consider the prospects of introducing artificial intelligence in the scientific process and production in the viticulture industry, as well as to highlight the problems associated with its use. This paper reviews the prospects of introducing elements of artificial intelligence in the scientific process and agricultural production. Over the last 15 years, this direction has received insufficient attention in scientific literature, with such publications in the field of viticulture not exceeding 2 %. This requires intensification of research on the adoption of artificial intelligence in agriculture, including viticulture, particularly in the Russian Federation. Lagging behind in this issue can lead to dependence on foreign developers of such products, which threatens the loss of independent development of unique algorithms to control the processes of plant development, the influence of abiotic and biotic factors, and the selection of optimal technologies ensuring sustainable development of agriculture in general and viticulture in particular. In addition, the use of foreign artificial intelligence tools may pose bioterrorism threats through algorithms covertly decreasing plant productivity and soil fertility as well as by promotion of foreign plant protection products and plant growth regulators, which ignore domestic import-substituting production, equipment, and fertilizers. In this regard, the need to implement cooperative research programs to accumulate research material and develop domestic artificial intelligence software products to eliminate the above issues is substantiated.