Why GANs give artificial intelligence wonderful (and scary) capabilities - Orange Silicon Valley

Over the last few years, there has been a worldwide resurgence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the point where it dominates almost all business, investment, and ethical narratives. There have formed two extreme views of AI: In one it is believed that AI will augment humans, and in the other it is believed that AI will diminish them, to the point of even threatening humanity's existence. The truth will lie somewhere in between. Many of the arguments on both sides are informed by the results stemming from a technique called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) that has given AI anthropomorphic qualities often associated with human motivations. The techniques used to train AI algorithms, broadly called Machine Learning, essentially mimic Operant Conditioning, which includes positive and negative reinforcement methods to increase the rate of a particular desired outcome or decrease the rate of an undesired outcome.