Schmidhuber Claims Recurrent Depth Traces Back to His 2015 Paper

After reports that OpenAI is exploring a 'recurrent depth' reasoning approach, Jürgen Schmidhuber repeatedly pointed to his 2015 paper On Learning to Think as the origin of the idea, saying it already covered thinking in abstract spaces and related world-model concepts.

2026-09-03 ~ 2026-09-03 · 4 related posts

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