Interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber, Father of Generative AI
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-08-19
Jazzyear published a deep interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber. The article reviews his "Annus Mirabilis" in 1990-1991, during which he laid the foundations for Generative AI by introducing principles now known as GANs, non-normalized linear Transformers, and self-supervised pretraining. It also discusses the 1997 LSTM paper co-authored with his student Sepp Hochreiter, widely regarded as one of the most cited AI papers of the 20th century and used in services like Siri and Google Translate.
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