Jurgen Schmidhuber: What can artificial intelligence do for you?

BBVA Aprendemos Juntos · Nov 21, 2024 · 1h 3m

In the 1980s, a young admirer of Einstein with a passion for science had a dream: to create an artificial scientist capable of solving the mysteries of the universe. At the time, everyone thought he was crazy. This young man was Jürgen Schmidhuber, a German computer scientist who is now considered "the father" of modern artificial intelligence. As he explains, "In the 1990s, we began the research that led to the development of AI, but back then, no one was interested in the topic." However, the algorithms he and his team developed during those years “are now in our smartphones, translators…