Neural nets play cops and robbers (AKA generative adverserial networks) - a podcast by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

One neural net is creating counterfeit bills and passing them off to a second neural net, which is trying to distinguish the real money from the fakes. Result: two neural nets that are better than either one would have been without the competition.

Relevant links:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2661v1.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6572v3.pdfhttp://soumith.ch/eyescream/

Further episodes of Linear Digressions

Further podcasts by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

Website of Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone