AI: Hype vs Reality — Hallucinations, Synthetic Media & Jobs | Asst. Prof. Alexey Zaytsev

What can today’s AI really do—and where does it fail? In this Technokukhnya episode, Alexey Zaytsev, Assistant Professor at Skoltech, Head of the Laboratory of Applied Joint Research Skoltech–Sberbank (LARSS) at the Skoltech AI Center, and Director of the SMILES-2025 Summer School, discusses: Why chatbots “sound confident” yet hallucinate—and how researchers detect those hallucinations Synthetic media in social networks: avatars, voices, and fully AI-run accounts Which jobs are hardest to automate (fine motor skills, complex spatial interaction) and why expertise still matters Trust and safety: medicine (when to rely on AI vs. see a doctor) and autonomy in cars (tech vs. regulation) Recommendation systems shaping what we watch/read; data, scale, and platform monopolies Sci-fi fears vs. real risks—and why becoming a unique expert is still the best career defense About the show Technokukhnya (Технокухня) airs on the Nauchnopop (Научпоп) TV channel, included in the paid TV bundles of MTS and KION.