Jürgen Schmidhuber(@SchmidhuberAI):The first modern backprop-trained CNN for vision was published in 1988 in Japan by Wei Zhang (a Chinese researcher), J. Tanida, K. Itoh, Y. Ichioka. Wei brought it to Silicon Valley, earning 1998 FDA PMA approval for radiology’s 1st AI, reading 10M+ mammograms/yr in the US.

Jürgen Schmidhuber

@SchmidhuberAI

OG of: P and T in ChatGPT, recursive self-improvement, neural distillation, GAN/World Model, deepest learning. Co-authored most-cited AI paper of 20th century

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Jürgen Schmidhuber@SchmidhuberAI

2026.08.13 14:00

The first modern backprop-trained CNN for vision was published in 1988 in Japan by Wei Zhang (a Chinese researcher), J. Tanida, K. Itoh, Y. Ichioka. Wei brought it to Silicon Valley, earning 1998 FDA PMA approval for radiology’s 1st AI, reading 10M+ mammograms/yr in the US.