Ethan realized that they were extremely parallelizable and that they would be more efficient to run on GPU. He knew that I knew how to write GPU code for games and came and asked me, do you think we could run this on GPU?
Ian Goodfellow, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs
I took that class with my friend Ethan Dreyfuss. He's actually the person that told me about deep learning originally.
Ian Goodfellow, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs