S1E43 - Jürgen Schmidhuber - World Models, RL, and the Year that changed AI (Part 1)

In this episode, we host Jürgen Schmidhuber - the man, the legend, one of the godfathers of modern AI. His lab worked out many ideas behind today’s systems (LSTM, world models, artificial curiosity, Transformer variants, and even GAN-style setups) decades before they became fashionable, and he’s just as well known for making sure people remember who did what first. This is the first of two conversations with him.

We go back to his lab in the early 90s and ask how one small group came up with so many of the ideas that are now b...