Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Schmidhuber speaking at the AI for GOOD Global Summit in 2017
Born17 January 1963[1]
Munich,[1] West Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnical University of Munich
Known forArtificial intelligence, deep learning, artificial neural networks, recurrent neural networks, Gödel machine, artificial curiosity, meta-learning
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsDalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research
Websitepeople.idsia.ch/~juergen

Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963)[1] is a computer scientist most noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is a co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Lugano, in Ticino in southern Switzerland.[2]​ Following Google Scholar, from 2016 to 2021 he has received more than 100,000 scientific citations (Profile). He has been referred to as "father of modern AI,"[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] "father of AI,"[10][11]​[12] "dad of mature AI,"[2]​ "Papa" of famous AI products,[13]​ "Godfather,"[14][6] and "father of deep learning."[15][6] (Schmidhuber himself, however, has called Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko the "father of deep learning."[16])

Schmidhuber did his undergraduate studies at the Technical University of Munich in Munich, Germany.[1] He taught there from 2004 until 2009 when he became a professor of artificial intelligence at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.[17]​

Work[]

With his students Sepp Hochreiter, Felix Gers, Fred Cummins, Alex Graves, and others, Schmidhuber published increasingly sophisticated versions of a type of recurrent neural network called the long short-term memory (LSTM). First results were already reported in Hochreiter's diploma thesis (1991) which analyzed and overcame the famous vanishing gradient problem.[18] The name LSTM was introduced in a tech report (1995) leading to the most cited LSTM publication (1997).[19]

The standard LSTM architecture which is used in almost all current applications was introduced in 2000.[20] Today's "vanilla LSTM" using backpropagation through time was published in 2005,[21][22] and its connectionist temporal classification (CTC) training algorithm[23] in 2006. CTC enabled end-to-end speech recognition with LSTM. In 2015, LSTM trained by CTC was used in a new implementation of speech recognition in Google's software for smartphones.[2]​ Google also used LSTM for the smart assistant Allo[24] and for Google Translate.[25][26] Apple used LSTM for the "Quicktype" function on the iPhone[27][28] and for Siri.[29] Amazon used LSTM for Amazon Alexa.[30] In 2017, Facebook performed some 4.5 billion automatic translations every day using LSTM networks.[31] Bloomberg Business Week wrote: "These powers make LSTM arguably the most commercial AI achievement, used for everything from predicting diseases to composing music."[14]

In 2011, Schmidhuber's team at IDSIA with his postdoc Dan Ciresan also achieved dramatic speedups of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on fast parallel computers called GPUs. An earlier CNN on GPU by Chellapilla et al. (2006) was 4 times faster than an equivalent implementation on CPU.[32] The deep CNN of Dan Ciresan et al. (2011) at IDSIA was already 60 times faster[33] and achieved the first superhuman performance in a computer vision contest in August 2011.[34] Between 15 May 2011 and 10 September 2012, their fast and deep CNNs won no fewer than four image competitions.[35][36] They also significantly improved on the best performance in the literature for multiple image databases.[37] The approach has become central to the field of computer vision.[36] It is based on CNN designs introduced much earlier by Yann LeCun et al. (1989)[38] who applied the backpropagation algorithm to a variant of Kunihiko Fukushima's original CNN architecture called neocognitron,[39] later modified by J. Weng's method called max-pooling.[40][36]

In 2014, Schmidhuber formed a company, Nnaisense, to work on commercial applications of artificial intelligence in fields such as finance, heavy industry and self-driving cars. Sepp Hochreiter, Jaan Tallinn, and Marcus Hutter are advisers to the company.[2]​ Sales were under US$11 million in 2016; however, Schmidhuber states that the current emphasis is on research and not revenue. Nnaisense raised its first round of capital funding in January 2017. Schmidhuber's overall goal is to create an all-purpose AI by training a single AI in sequence on a variety of narrow tasks.[41]

Views[]

According to The Guardian,[42] Schmidhuber complained in a "scathing 2015 article" that fellow deep learning researchers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio "heavily cite each other," but "fail to credit the pioneers of the field", allegedly understating the contributions of Schmidhuber and other early machine learning pioneers including Alexey Grigorevich Ivakhnenko who published the first deep learning networks already in 1965. LeCun denied the charge, stating instead that Schmidhuber "keeps claiming credit he doesn't deserve".[2]​[42] Schmidhuber replied that LeCun did not provide a single example for his statement, and listed several priority disputes.[43]

Recognition[]

Schmidhuber received the Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Network Society in 2013,[44]​ and the Neural Networks Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2016[45]​ for "pioneering contributions to deep learning and neural networks."[1] He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[46]​[17]​

References[]

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  3. ^ Blunden, Mark (8 June 2018). "Humans will learn to confide in their robot friends, says AI expert. The father of modern AI believes robots could keep lonely people company". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
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  5. ^ Heaven, Will Douglas (15 October 2020). "Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try? Quote: Jürgen Schmidhuber—sometimes called "the father of modern AI..." MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
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  11. ^ Telekom (21 April 2017). Video-Interview mit Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber, oft als Vater der Künstlichen Intelligenz bezeichnet (often called the father of AI). Telekom. Accessed August 2021.
  12. ^ Ruth Fulterer (21 February 2021). Der unbequeme Vater der künstlichen Intelligenz lebt in der Schweiz (The inconvenient father of AI lives in Switzerland). NZZ. Accessed August 2021.
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  18. ^ Hochreiter, S. (1991). Untersuchungen zu dynamischen neuronalen Netzen (PDF) (diploma thesis). Technical University of Munich, Institute of Computer Science (advisor Jürgen Schmidhuber).
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  20. ^ Felix A. Gers; Jürgen Schmidhuber; Fred Cummins (2000). "Learning to Forget: Continual Prediction with LSTM". Neural Computation. 12 (10): 2451–2471. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.55.5709. doi:10.1162/089976600300015015. PMID 11032042. S2CID 11598600.
  21. ^ Graves, A.; Schmidhuber, J. (2005). "Framewise phoneme classification with bidirectional LSTM and other neural network architectures". Neural Networks. 18 (5–6): 602–610. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.331.5800. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.042. PMID 16112549.
  22. ^ Klaus Greff; Rupesh Kumar Srivastava; Jan Koutník; Bas R. Steunebrink; Jürgen Schmidhuber (2015). "LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 28 (10): 2222–2232. arXiv:1503.04069. Bibcode:2015arXiv150304069G. doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2016.2582924. PMID 27411231. S2CID 3356463.
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  33. ^ Ciresan, Dan; Ueli Meier; Jonathan Masci; Luca M. Gambardella; Jurgen Schmidhuber (2011). "Flexible, High Performance Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification" (PDF). Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-Volume Volume Two. 2: 1237–1242. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
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  43. ^ Schmidhuber, Jürgen (2020). "Critique of 2018 Turing Award". Schmidhuber's AI Blog. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  44. ^ INNS Awards Recipients. International Neural Network Society. Accessed December 2016.
  45. ^ Recipients: Neural Networks Pioneer Award. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Accessed January 2019.
  46. ^ Members. European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Accessed December 2016.
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