The term “schmidhubered” has been jokingly used in the AI community to describe Schmidhuber’s habit of publicly challenging the originality of other researchers’ work, a practice seen by some in the AI community as a “rite of passage” for young researchers. Some suggest that Schmidhuber’s significant accomplishments have been underappreciated due to his confrontational personality.
Who’s the swiss prof?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Schmidhuber
Note how the titles of his recent papers are all “<popular AI technique> is a special case of <thing I published in the 90s>”
I like this part very much: