Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
A legendary AI theorist just joined a Tokyo startup. Here's why recursive self-improvement matters to your AI roadmap.
Why it matters
Sakana AI signals serious ambitions in recursive self-improvement and world models by hiring Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. His foundational work on deep learning and self-referential systems now shapes the company's RSI Lab — a shift that matters if you're tracking which labs are betting on self-bootstrapping AI.
The key facts
9 to knowJürgen Schmidhuber hired as Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI
Sakana launching RSI Lab focused on recursive self-improvement
Schmidhuber's 1990s theories already influenced Sakana's Darwin Gödel Machine
Schmidhuber called 'father of modern AI' by Sakana
Company based in Tokyo
Schmidhuber credited as 'father of modern AI' and inventor of deep learning concepts
New RSI Lab focuses on recursive self-improvement (AI self-development)
Schmidhuber's 1990s ideas already influenced Sakana projects (Darwin Gödel Machine)
Tokyo-based company
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Publisher excerpt: Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Sakana calls him the "father of modern AI." He'll help lead the company's new RSI Lab, which works on recursive self-improvement, meaning AI that keeps developing itself. His ideas from the 1990s have already shaped…