discriminator

noun dis·crim·i·na·tor \ dis-ˈkri-mə-ˌnā-tər \

|Updated on: 18 Jun 2018

Definition of discriminator

: one that discriminates; especially : a circuit that can be adjusted to accept or reject signals of different characteristics (such as amplitude or frequency)

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Outside the law-school classroom, discriminators rarely wear their ugly hearts on their sleeves.

— aziz huq, Fortune, "What the Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Could Mean for Trump’s Travel Ban," 5 June 2018
The discriminator network then reviews the first AI's levels.

— laura yan, Popular Mechanics, "AI Created DOOM Game Levels That Are Totally Playable," 13 May 2018
Countrywide was part of Bank of America and a known predatory lender and discriminator before Evans took the case.

— jason johnson, The Root, "When White Politicians Profit Off Black Pain and Then Go Begging for Black Votes: Georgia Edition," 9 May 2018
The other, called the discriminator, says yes or no after each guess.

— bryn nelson /, NBC News, "Why Big Pharma is betting big on AI," 1 Mar. 2018
The MIT Technology Review reports that the first network created random images, then received analysis from the discriminator network.

— jason daley, Smithsonian, "AI Project Produces New Styles of Art," 3 July 2017
As a rule, people are terrible discriminators of what care is needed and what’s not.

— aaron e. carroll and austin frakt, New York Times, "Don’t Assume That Private Insurance Is Better Than Medicaid," 12 July 2017
One is a generator that concocts images, the other a discriminator that tries to spot any flaws that would give away the manipulation, forcing the generator to get better.

— science news staff, Science | AAAS, "AI is changing how we do science. Get a glimpse," 5 July 2017

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