The document discusses generative adversarial networks (GANs) and how they can be used to generate new images based on training data. It provides examples of GANs trained on the MNIST dataset to generate handwritten digits, and on a dataset of celebrity faces. The examples demonstrate how the generated images improve in quality and level of detail as the GANs are trained for more epochs. Key points are made that GANs can generate plausible new data rather than just copying training examples, and that mode collapse is a major open research question when using GANs.