Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom

Jürgen Schmidhuber's article on his website argues that the current AI boom has roots in research conducted in Munich in 1991, particularly his work on neural networks and self-supervised learning. He highlights the invention of the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture and the idea of using gradient descent to train deep networks. Schmidhuber connects these early developments to modern breakthroughs like GPT-4 and AlphaGo. He also discusses the role of recurrent neural networks and the concept of 'artificial curiosity' first explored at the Technical University of Munich. The post serves as a historical retrospective emphasizing often overlooked contributions.