Schmidhuber claims he solved neural self-reference in 1993, Osband quips 'AGI achieved 1993'
IanOsband · x · 2026-09-12
Schmidhuber's account posted that he "solved neural self-reference" back in 1993, citing his ICANN 1993 paper A Self-Referential Weight Matrix and the 2022 ICML follow-up with Irie, Schlag, and Csordas.
Ian Osband leaned into the running joke: "AGI achieved 1993... Thank you Jurgen — even before Gary pioneered neuro-symbolic systems." Another round of the classic Schmidhuber 'I did it first' meme in AI circles.
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