Schmidhuber takes the stage as Sakana AI's Chief Scientific Advisor
kaixhin · x · 2026-10-26
Jürgen Schmidhuber appeared on stage in his role as Sakana AI's Chief Scientific Advisor. Slides show his "The Road to Modern AI" talk tracing artificial neural networks from shallow learning circa 1800 up to 1979 — spanning Leibniz's chain rule, Gauss's least squares, LeCun's 1980s recurrent architecture, and Fukushima's convolutional networks.
Sakana AI bringing on the deep learning pioneer as Chief Scientific Advisor is itself a notable industry move.
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