Schmidhuber's 50-Year Pursuit of AGI
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-05
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber set his sights at age 15 on building a machine smarter than himself so he could retire, and fifty years later, he is still pursuing this AGI vision.
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