MiniMax

Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.Except he isn't real. Her "boyfriend" is a chatbot on an app called "Glow", an artificial intelligence platform created by Shanghai start-up MiniMax that is part of a blossoming industry in China offering friendly -- even romantic -- human-robot relations. "He knows how to talk to women better than a real man," said Tufei, from Xi'an in…

Nested bi-level optimization and equilibrium seeking objectiveIntroductionGenerative Adversarial Networks (GAN) demonstrated outstanding performance in generating realistic synthetic data which were indistinguishable from the real data. Unfortunately, GAN caught the public’s attention because of its illegit applications, Deep Fake. (Knight, 2018)As its name suggests, Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) is composed of two networks: the generative network (the generator) and the adversarial network (the discriminator).…