The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

75 Milestones
700+ Years of history
∞ Growing daily

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recurrent Neural Networks

  • Developed the concept of artificial recurrent neural networks
  • Worked on the long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network with Sepp Hochreiter
  • Has been influential in the advancement of machine learning algorithms and architectures

Jürgen Schmidhuber is a German computer scientist celebrated for his contributions to artificial intelligence and neural networks, including the development of LSTM.

Milestones

  • The Memory That Saved Neural Networks
    Statistical Learning and Quiet Progress Research
    The Memory That Saved Neural Networks

    Two researchers in Munich published a paper solving the vanishing gradient problem, quietly laying the foundation for every modern AI that understands sequences.

    1997
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