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.