The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

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

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Sepp Hochreiter

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Sepp Hochreiter

LSTM neural networks

  • Co-developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network with Jürgen Schmidhuber in the 1990s
  • Has been leading the Institute for Machine Learning at Johannes Kepler University Linz since 2018
  • Contributed extensively to the field of deep learning and neural networks

Josef ‘Sepp’ Hochreiter is a German computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in artificial neural networks, particularly in 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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