The 'Schmidhuber myself' joke hits Stanford NLP's AI scientist thread
christopher · x · 2026-10-07
Stanford NLP asks how feasible it is for an LLM to generate genuinely novel research ideas rather than just optimizing hyperparameters, noting the thread builds on Schmidhuber's once-novel work. christopher replies with the community's favorite joke: "Can't get Schmidhubered if I Schmidhuber myself" — riffing on Schmidhuber's habit of claiming credit for prior ideas.
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