Jürgen Schmidhuber Joins Sakana AI to Lead an RSI Laboratory

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    "title": "Jürgen Schmidhuber Joins Sakana AI to Lead an RSI Laboratory - Brief IA",
    "contact": "Jürgen Schmidhuber",
    "excerpt": "The Tokyo-based startup has appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor and plans for him to co-lead a new RSI laboratory. The stated goal: to create a self-reinforcing research loop and develop an AI focused on the physical world. The company highlights its internal projects fueled by Schmidhuber's longstanding ideas from 1987 to 1991. The researcher positions this strategy within Japan's legacy of innovation. The RSI laboratory at Sakana AI aims to establish a self-reinforcing research loop to make machines smarter. Jürgen Schmidhuber is set to help lead this new laboratory. According to him, the future of intelligence is not limited to language but involves a physical AI based on models of the world. He believes that Sakana AI is well-positioned to leverage Japan's legacy of innovation by building autonomous systems capable of understanding, simulating, and interacting with the physical universe. It is also suggested that Japan is the birthplace of fundamental architectures for neural networks and advanced robotics. Sakana AI's headquarters is located in Tokyo, where the company has appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. To realize the program of the RSI laboratory, the company aims to gather a significant group of internationally renowned experts in Tokyo. Schmidhuber describes his arrival as an opportunity to bridge the fields of neural...",
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