Domingos mocks recurrent transformers: Schmidhuber invented them, minus the recurrent and transformer parts
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-03
AI researcher Pedro Domingos posted a sarcastic jab at the recurrent transformer trend, claiming Schmidhuber invented it long ago — save for the recurrent part and the transformer part. A classic snarky critique of novelty framing in current AI research.
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