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Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Are You a Robot?

I can understand thinking that I'm a robot. It's the flip side of the Turing test, I think. So you have to, is there something that's truly unique in your mind? Does it go back to just natural language again? Just being able to talk about it. Yeah, that's pretty straightforward. My conversation today hasn't veered off into talking about the stock market or something because of my training data. But I guess more generally trying to prove that something is real from the content alone is incredibly hard. That's one of the main things I've gotten out of my GAN research that you can simulate almost anything. And so you have to really step back to a

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