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GANs were just low hanging fruit that Schmidhuber already found. By most accounts Ian Goodfellow is kind of an asshole, and there was some drama about him a few
by jackblemming 4y ago
GANs were just low hanging fruit that Schmidhuber already found. By most accounts Ian Goodfellow is kind of an asshole, and there was some drama about him a few times over the years. I don’t know the man, that’s just what I’ve heard.
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- gwern 4y agoIf Schmidhuber had really found everything he says he found, the Singularity would've happened decades ago.
- carapace 4y agoYou know, if it were anyone else I would probably ignore this comment, but you seem to do your homework, to put it mildly. Are you saying he's, uh, misrepresenting himself? (I like Schmidhuber but I'm not knowledgeable enough to really evaluate his work or claims.)
- curuinor 4y agohe's had a decades-long tendency to just say that stuff has been invented before, sometimes by him, sometimes by obscure russians, that one time by Gauss. sometimes he's right, more of the time he's materially wrong, all of the time he's got no social sense.
- woodson 4y agoTo be fair, it’s not just him. Whenever I gave a poster at a conference, there was a chance that someone with a Russian sounding name would call the work trivial and say they had already published it in the nineties ;). Of course, on closer inspection that was not the case. I don’t fully understand the tendency to do so, but it appears to be fairly widespread.
- anothernewdude 4y agoSo he was a good culture fit for apple then?
- tasubotadas 4y agoIs there anything that schmidhuber hasn't done before everyone else?
- tchalla 4y agoRemote work.