His schtick is claiming he’s real “father of deep learning” and that all major work in ML has been built off of work done in his lab, and that he’s unjustly rem

His schtick is claiming he’s real “father of deep learning” and that all major work in ML has been built off of work done in his lab, and that he’s unjustly remained unrecognized while other pioneers in the field have received tons of awards and compensation from big tech companies. When I say it’s his shtick, I mean that he basically brings it up whenever possible. When another big name in the field receives an award, he’ll write up a huge blog post about how ackshually they didn’t invent XYZ, but rather modified A and B, which is related to work C he did at his lab in 1980. See https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinton.html https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-honda-prize-hinto... https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/naturedeepmind.html https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/naturedeepmind.html https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html https://people.idsia.ch//~juergen/critique-turing-award-beng... At 1:03:00 in this video he interrupts a lecture at NIPS from Goodfellow (another leader in the field) to try and claim credit for the subject of the lecture in a sort of slimy way. https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGYYEUSm-0Q&feature=share https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGYYEUSm-0Q&feature=share Honestly I’m not equipped to tell whether Schmidhuber’s claims are true since I haven’t followed the progression of ML research since the 1980s - but the impression I get of him is that he’s kind of a jackass who’s willing to spend a ton of time tearing others down in really petty ways. If there is some truth to his claims, perhaps the reason he’s unrecognized is because he’s a bit of an ass to work with?