Sakana AI, a company based in Tokyo, has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. According to The Decoder, he will also participate in leading the new RSI Lab, which focuses on recursive self-improvement—an approach where artificial intelligence systems develop subsequent improvements.
Sakana AI refers to Schmidhuber as the "father of modern AI." The Decoder's synopsis also states that his ideas from the 1990 have already influenced the company's projects, including the Darwin Gödel Machine.
The practical significance of this appointment cannot yet be assessed based on available materials: the source lacks details on the structure of RSI Lab, its goals, timelines, or initial results. The available confirmation consists of metadata and a synopsis from a single independent publication, rather than a full article or a statement from the company itself.
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Why it matters
The likely consequence is an enhancement of the scientific authority of Sakana AI's direction related to recursive self-improvement. The next observable signal will be an official description of RSI Lab or its first results. Significant uncertainty remains: only The Decoder's synopsis is available, without primary confirmation or details on the laboratory's plans.