Delip Rao says the AI community owes Schmidhuber a strong apology
deliprao · x · 2026-09-03
Former Google Brain research scientist Delip Rao posted that the broader AI community owes a strong apology to Jürgen Schmidhuber: "You may not like the man, but don't let that get in the way of liking his brilliance."
The remark adds to the AI community's long-running debate over credit attribution and Schmidhuber's polarizing persona.
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