Sakana AI Hires Deep Learning Pioneer Schmidhuber

Tokyo-based Sakana AI hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. He will help lead its new RSI Lab, focused on recursive self-improvement. His 1990s ideas have already influenced projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine, and Sakana calls him the father of modern AI.

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