What Excites Yoshua Bengio about the Future of Generative AI

Most of the world that stumbled upon AI-generated images this past year may make the mistake of believing that the buzzword'generative' was never-heard-before. But anyone who knows a little more about AI, would be familiar with the fact that the origins of generative AI was with the advent of GANs. In 2014, a group of researchers, including former Google Brain research scientist Ian Goodfellow, his professor and Turing awardee Yoshua Bengio and others released a paper on Generative Adversarial Networks or GANs. They decided to use neural networks in an imaginative manner – they would pit two networks against each other that would constantly try to outwit the other. Both would be trained on the same data set of images and eventually generate a new fake image that would be sufficiently convincing.