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

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 Saka