We cordially invite you to the talk of Jürgen Schmidhuber (IDSIA, Switzerland and KAUST, Saudi Arabia), one of the pioneers of modern AI. The talk entitled “Artificial Intelligence” will take place in H3 (OSZ) on Monday, 23.03.26, at 13:00.
As director of IDSIA (Switzerland) and head of the AI Initiative at KAUST (Saudi Arabia), Schmidhuber has helped develop key foundations for today’s AI systems—from neural networks to concepts that underpin current applications such as generative AI. In his lecture, he traces the development of AI since the 1990s and offers a glimpse into upcoming breakthroughs. This encompasses not only digital applications but also the increasing shift of AI into the physical world—from robotics to self-learning machines. At the same time, he examines the societal impacts and long-term prospects of this technology.
His talk will offer fascinating insights into the past and future of artificial intelligence and is sure to provide valuable input for all FIAS members.
Due to the expected high interest, the lecture will take place in lecture hall H3 at OSZ.
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Abstract:
Everybody is talking about AI. However, everything that we have seen so far in AI is nothing compared to what’s going to come. Let’s first provide some historic context. Modern AI emerged around 1990 when the Cold War ended, the WWW was born, the first smartphone was created, the first self-driving cars appeared in traffic, and my little TUM AI lab published foundations of the two most frequently cited scientific articles of all time (with the most citations within 3 years – manuals excluded), while laying the foundations of Generative AI and ChatGPT. I’ll discuss how in the 2000s this has begun to impact billions of human lives, how AI will continue to make human lives longer and healthier and easier, how AI will benefit all (not just a few big companies), how sophisticated blue collar workers in the physical world will gain a temporary advantage over white collar workers behind the screen. I’ll discuss how AI will eventually spread from the virtual world behind the screen into the much more challenging physical world of robots, factories, and machines, eventually culminating in life-like, self-replicating and self-improving machine civilisations, which represent the ultimate form of upscaling. I’ll also discuss what will happen in the next 40 billion years.
Mini-Biography:
The NY Times headlined: “When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’.” His team introduced principles of (1) the P in ChatGPT, (2) the T in ChatGPT, (3) neural net distillation (key for DeepSeek), (4) GANs for neural World Models, (5) LSTM, the most cited AI of the 20th century, and (6) the basis of the most cited paper of the 21st century.
