Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Tokyo startup Sakana AI hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor to steer its recursive self-improvement research lab.
Sakana AI named Jürgen Schmidhuber, whom it calls the 'father of modern AI', as Chief Scientific Advisor, crediting his 1990 world models work and 1991 deep learning techniques. Schmidhuber will help steer Sakana's new RSI lab, which aims to build a self-reinforcing research loop that makes machines smarter. Sakana says his ideas shaped projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist, and plans to gather a critical mass of experts in Tokyo.
- Schmidhuber hired as Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI
- Will help steer new RSI lab for recursive self-improvement
- Sakana credits his 1990-1991 world model and deep learning work
- Company aims to build 'physical AI powered by world models'
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1 min read at the-decoder.comTokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps developing itself.
By Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.com
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