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AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber joins Japan’s Sakana AI

He will help guide a new lab where AI works on improving AI.

Sakana AI said on September 24 that Jürgen Schmidhuber, who co-created the LSTM neural network, is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor while keeping his current positions. He will help guide the Tokyo startup’s new Recursive Self-Improvement Lab, which wants AI to redesign how AI is built.

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OpenAI says a new model solved over 100 open maths problems

It has not named or published any of them yet.

In a September 21 post, OpenAI said an internal model in training since August 28 has solved more than 100 long-standing problems. It named none and published no proofs. It also set up an unpaid advisory group of nine leading mathematicians, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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AlphaGenome Atlas maps 9 billion DNA changes

A prediction is not a diagnosis.

Google DeepMind released a free research map of every possible one-letter change in the human genome. It can help scientists choose what to test, but laboratory and clinical proof still matter.