Schmidhuber: We Were Ahead of Our Time, Compute Was Millions of Times More Expensive in 1991
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-21
AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber commented on why early work didn't gain current traction, stating they were "ahead of our time." He noted that in 1991, compute was millions of times more expensive than it is today, which limited the impact of their early research achievements.
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