Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update

Tokyo-based Sakana AI has appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. Known as the "father of modern AI," Schmidhuber will lead the new RSI Lab, focusing on recursive self-improvement. His concepts from the 1990s have already influenced Sakana's projects, including the Darwin Gödel Machine. The RSI Lab aims to develop AI systems capable of continuously improving themselves, a concept that has significantly impacted AI evolution. By bringing in Schmidhuber, Sakana hopes to enhance its capabilities in this area, leveraging his extensive experience in deep learning and world models.