Speaker Bio
The New York Times headlined: "When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber 'Dad'.” He is often called the Father of Modern AI by the media. In 1990-91, he laid the foundations of "Generative AI," by introducing the principles of Generative Adversarial Networks (now used for deepfakes), unnormalised linear Transformers (see the T in ChatGPT), and self-supervised Pre-Training (see the P in ChatGPT). His lab also produced LSTM, the most cited AI of the 20th century, and the Highway Net (a variant of which is the most cited AI of the 21st century). Elon Musk tweeted: "Schmidhuber invented everything." His AI is on over 3 billion smartphones, and used many billions of times per day.