With regards to his claim that he described a GAN before Ian Goodfellow did, it certainly seems like that is the case.
The problem is that, in his original Artificial Curiosity paper he talks so specifically about world-simulating reinforcement learning. He even uses the terms "World Model" and "Controller" instead of the more general "Discriminator" and "Generator." In this paper, he says the GAN is a more specific application of his Artificial Curiosity paper, but I see it the other way around.
Goodfellow should have cited the Artificial Curiosity paper though, as training two networks at odds with each other in parallel is explicitly mentioned by Schmindhuber in his original paper.
It also doesn't hurt that Bengio and others came out with research when you could actually run the damn thing. Schmindhuber's Artificial Curiosity paper doesn't list a single experimental result.
Schmindhuber perhaps should have shared in the Turing award, but at some point you have to cut it off. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and so do those giants. At some point, a giant is getting left out of the award.
The problem is that, in his original Artificial Curiosity paper he talks so specifically about world-simulating reinforcement learning. He even uses the terms "World Model" and "Controller" instead of the more general "Discriminator" and "Generator." In this paper, he says the GAN is a more specific application of his Artificial Curiosity paper, but I see it the other way around.
Goodfellow should have cited the Artificial Curiosity paper though, as training two networks at odds with each other in parallel is explicitly mentioned by Schmindhuber in his original paper.
It also doesn't hurt that Bengio and others came out with research when you could actually run the damn thing. Schmindhuber's Artificial Curiosity paper doesn't list a single experimental result.
Schmindhuber perhaps should have shared in the Turing award, but at some point you have to cut it off. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and so do those giants. At some point, a giant is getting left out of the award.
[1] Schmindhuber's original Artificial Curiosity paper: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/FKI-126-90ocr.pdf [2] Ian Goodfellow's original GAN paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661