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J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA \/ University of Lugano;
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times headlined: “When A.I. Matures, It May Call J\u00fcrgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’.” Since age 15, his main goal has been to build a self-improving Artificial Intelligence smarter than himself, then retire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His lab’s deep learning artificial neural networks have revolutionised machine learning and A.I. By 2017, they were on over 3 billion smartphones, and used billions of times per day, for Facebook\u2019s automatic translation, Google\u2019s speech recognition, Google Translate, Apple\u2019s Siri & QuickType, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, etc. Generative AI is also based on his work: he introduced principles of artificial curiosity and generative adversarial networks (1990, now widely used), unnormalised linear Transformers (1991, the “T” in “ChatGPT” stands for “Transformer”), self-supervised pre-training for deep learning (1991, the “P” in “ChatGPT” stands for “pre-trained\u201d), and meta-learning machines that learn to learn (since 1987, now widely used). His lab also produced LSTM, the most cited AI of the 20th century, and the LSTM-inspired Highway Net, the first very deep feedforward net with hundreds of layers (ResNet, the most cited AI of the 21st century, is an open-gated Highway Net). In 2006-2010, he published the “formal theory of fun and creativity.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk tweeted: “Schmidhuber invented everything.” He is recipient of numerous awards, Director of the AI Initiative at KAUST in KSA, Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Co-Founder of the company NNAISENSE. He is a frequent keynote speaker at major events, and advising various governments on A.I. strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about J\u00fcrgen’s work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n