Bronstein: Jürgen Schmidhuber convinced me deep learning hype was real
mmbronstein · x · 2026-09-04
Responding to Delip Rao's claim that the AI community owes Schmidhuber an apology, Michael Bronstein shared that he was initially skeptical of the deep learning hype — and it was Jürgen Schmidhuber who convinced him. The two later co-authored several papers together. A notable anecdote underscoring Schmidhuber's academic influence.
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