Why is Russia sad that AI thinks the photos of the US moon landing were faked?

Russia has stirred up the world's media hornet's nest again. Russia's satellite news agency reported that a very interesting thing happened at the "Artificial Intelligence World Tour" held in Moscow, and this thing has stirred up a heated debate about whether the United States should put a man on the moon.

The thing is, at the "Artificial Intelligence World Tour" event, Nikolai Gerasimen, head of the data research department of the Russian Sberbank, showed Russian President Vladimir Putin the ability of an AI system to automatically identify the authenticity of photos or videos. I do not know who put forward the "ghost idea", the responsible comrade actually took out the photos of the lunar landing missions of China and the United States, so that the AI system can automatically identify the true and false photos.

The results identified by the artificial intelligence system are quite surprising, but after calm thinking, they feel very normal. Surprisingly, the AI system thought that the photos of the US moon landing were faked; But think about it calmly, various experts and the media think that the photos of the United States moon landing are suspected of fraud, and it is not a matter of one or two days, and there is really no need to make a fuss.

If you think this is a deliberate attempt by Russia to discredit the United States, you don't have to, because the AI system used by Glasman is an American-developed Google artificial intelligence system, not a Russian system. In response to Putin's surprised expression, a Russian official said, "This is the result provided by Google's neural network, not our analysis, so there is no bias, although it is surprising, but it is true."

The development of artificial intelligence technology has indeed brought many new technical capabilities to human beings, and the recognition of false photos and videos also has a wide range of application prospects. However, in the face of the conclusion given by the AI system that "the United States moon landing photo is synthetic", Russian President Vladimir Putin obviously has complex emotions, yes, if the United States manned moon landing is determined to be fake, then the most sad country, in addition to the United States, may be Russia. "Does it think it's fake?" Putin asked. In fact, I did not expect to get a real answer, but I felt hard to accept the result.

You know, one of the major reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union was the all-dimensional competition with the United States, which dragged down the national strength. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the competition for hegemony, is reflected in all aspects, economy, politics, diplomacy, strategy, psychology, culture, ideology, science and technology, military power and so on. Among them, the United States and the Soviet Union pay particular attention to the competition in the field of aerospace, because this cutting-edge technology for the universe can best reflect a country's comprehensive national strength and institutional advantages. The United States and the Soviet Union who can go further in space and go more realistically represent whose ideas are more advanced and whose system and national strength are more excellent.

In the beginning, the Soviet Union really took the lead, whether it was the world's first artificial Earth satellite, or the world's first manned spaceflight, it was done by the Soviet Union. This not only won the Soviet Union a huge international reputation, but also promoted human civilization to the stage of space civilization, which is indeed of historic significance. However, just after the Soviet Union completed the first human spaceflight in 1961, the United States landed a man on the moon just six years later in 1967. This dealt a blow to Soviet prestige, undermined the Soviet Union's position as the first space power, and deepened the world's doubts about the Soviet system and strength. From the United States Apollo manned moon landing, the Soviet Union has been committed to catching up with the United States, want to achieve the Soviet astronauts manned moon landing, but until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this vision has not been achieved, but also spent the Soviet Union's huge financial, material and human resources, accelerated the consumption of Soviet national strength.

The United States lags behind the Soviet Union in manned space technology, artificial satellite technology, and low-Earth orbit space station technology, but it is far ahead in the manned moon landing, and it is only six years after the Soviet Union completed the first manned space flight in human history, which is really incredible, after all, the pace is too fast, too fast to catch up. It's really not in line with the law of technological development.

However, the Soviet Union believed the argument of the United States and spent huge national power in a fruitless competition and catch-up, which makes today's Russians feel a little sad. "It turns out that we were defeated by the enemy's lies," this may be the voice of many Russians. After all, if the American manned moon landing was real, the Soviet effort was worth something; If America's manned moon landing is a fake, then the Soviet Union's efforts to catch up with the superpower will be meaningless.