Schmidhuber Claims OpenAI's Recurrent Depth Traces Back to His 2015 Paper

Schmidhuber says OpenAI's recurrent depth reasoning in the Astra model essentially follows his 2015 paper "On Learning to Think," which proposed thinking in abstract spaces. Researchers worry the new approach obscures its academic origins.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-03 · 3 related posts

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