AI community meme: Schmidhuber's 2002 OOPS paper proves he 'did everything'

akbirthko · x · 2026-10-28

A classic AI-circle meme sharing Jürgen Schmidhuber's 2002 Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (OOPS) page, covering his MLJ 2004 and NIPS 2003 abstracts on a bias-optimal universal search solver that reuses previously solved task code via non-modifiable memory, demonstrated on n-disk Towers of Hanoi. The caption "my guy lowkey did everything huh" riffs on Schmidhuber's reputation for anticipating modern AI ideas decades earlier.

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