'Father of modern AI' Jürgen Schmidhuber joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor
tkasasagi · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber, widely recognized as a father of modern AI, is joining the company as Chief Scientific Advisor.
- Schmidhuber has spent nearly four decades on machines that 'learn to learn': his 1990s work drove core deep learning advances and established early frameworks for world models.
- His pioneering meta-learning innovations opened the path toward recursive self-improvement, aligning closely with Sakana AI's research agenda.
- Sakana says its Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist projects were already shaped by his ideas.
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