On February 8, the festival "Loud Voice of Russian Science" was held at the scientific and educational center "Zapovednoye Polostvo" in Zaryadye Park. This is a large-scale educational event for young researchers. The event was held as part of the Decade of Science and Technology program, combining lectures, master classes and interactive activities from leading Russian scientists. More than 4,300 guests took part in the festival.
Deputy Director for Science, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.V. Surov and Scientific Secretary of the IEE RAS, Doctor of Biological Sciences N.Yu. Feoktistova took part in the discussion "Gone Viral!" about how to distinguish real animals from those generated by neural networks. The scientists analyzed "viral" videos from social networks, explained the principles of their creation and gave advice on critically assessing online content.
You can watch the video of the discussion at the link.
Photos of the event can be viewed at the link in the VKontakte group.