Jürgen Schmidhuber is the co-chair of the Center of Excellence for Generative AI (GenAI) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Scientific Director at Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA.Prof. Schmidhuber earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 1991. He is a co-founder and former president of NNAISENSE, founder of juergen.AI, board member of Delvitech, and has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers. He is often called the Father of Modern AI by the media. In 1990-91, he laid the foundations of "Generative AI," by introducing the principles of Generative Adversarial Networks (now used for deepfakes), unnormalised linear Transformers (the T in ChatGPT), and self-supervised Pre-Training (the P in ChatGPT). His lab also produced LSTM, the most cited AI of the 20th century, and the Highway Net (a variant of which is the most cited AI of the 21st century). His AI is on over 3 billion smartphones, and used many billions of times per day.
