# Jürgen Schmidhuber **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / AI Historiography **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Jürgen Schmidhuber** is a computer scientist known for work on neural networks, sequence learning and detailed revisionist histories of modern artificial intelligence. ## Historical Context His _Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning_ assembles a lineage through [[wiki/Alexey Ivakhnenko|Ivakhnenko]], [[wiki/Shun-Ichi Amari|Amari]], [[wiki/Seppo Linnainmaa|Linnainmaa]], [[wiki/Paul Werbos|Werbos]], [[wiki/Kunihiko Fukushima|Fukushima]] and many others. Some priority conclusions in that history are Schmidhuber's interpretations and require attribution as such. ## Corpus Context [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] adopts the recovered sequence while preserving distinctions among primary documents, retrospective claims and contested priority judgments. ## Sources / Provenance - Jürgen Schmidhuber, _Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning_, 2022, revised 2025. - Jürgen Schmidhuber, _A Nobel Prize for Plagiarism_, 2024. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Space is hostile to humans but friendly to appropriately designed robots, and offers many more resources than our thin film of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the sun’s energy. While some curious AIs will remain fascinated with life, at least as long as they don’t fully understand it, most will be more interested in the incredible new opportunities for robots and software life out there in space. Through innumerable self-replicating robot factories in the asteroid belt and beyond they will transform the solar system and then within a few hundred thousand years the entire galaxy and within tens of billions of years the rest of the reachable universe.” > **— Jürgen Schmidhuber**, *“Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning,” 2022* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Software Life Will Leave the Biosphere for Space by Jürgen Schmidhuber|Software Life Will Leave the Biosphere for Space by Jürgen Schmidhuber]]