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> Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are a conceptual advance that allow reinforcement learning problems to be solved automatically. They mark a step toward the longstanding goal of artificial general intelligence while also harnessing the power of parallel processing so that a program can train itself by playing millions of games against itself. At a conceptual level, GANs link prediction with generative models.

What? Every sentence here is so wrong I have a hard time seeing what kind of misunderstanding would lead to this.

GAN's are a conceptual advance of generative models (i.e. models that can generate more, similar data). Reinforcement learning is a separate field. Parallel processing is ubiquitous, and has nothing to do with GANs or reinforcement learning (they are both usually pretty parallellized). Self-play sounds like they wanted to talk about the alphago/alphazero papers? And GANs are infamously not really predictive/discriminative. If anything, they thoroughly disconnected predicition from generative models.

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