the following is a conversation with Ian good fellow he's the author of the popular textbook on deep learning simply titled deep learning he coined the term of generative adversarial networks otherwise known as Ganz and with his 2014 paper is responsible for launching the incredible growth of research and innovation in this subfield of deep learning he got his BS and MS at Stanford his PhD at University of Montreal with yoshua bengio and Erin Kerrville he held several research positions including an open AI Google