With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber is a unique figure in the artificial intelligence world — equal parts scientist and provocateur. Schmidhuber is widely recognized as one of the early trailblazers of deep learning and neural network research. Most of his career has focused on the development of AI architecture such as long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, which are fundamental in language modeling, speech recognition,...