Artificial intelligence · 2014
Generative adversarial network
Two networks compete, one forging images and one detecting forgeries.
Ian Goodfellow's GAN trained a generator against a discriminator in a minimax game. GANs produced the first strikingly realistic synthetic faces and dominated image generation until diffusion models overtook them around 2021.
What it built on 2
What it led to 1
Related measurements
The dashed line marks when it first worked.
Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)
ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)