Jürgen Schmidhuber is often called the Father of Modern AI by the media. Since age 15, his main goal has been to build a self-improving AI smarter than himself, then retire. His lab's deep learning artificial neural networks based on ideas published in the "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-1991 have revolutionised machine learning and A.I. By 2017, they were on over 3 billion smartphones, and used billions of times per day. Today, the most cited neural networks all build on work done in his labs, and Elon Musk tweeted: "Schmidhuber invented everything."
