It's become somewhat of a meme, where Schmidhuber seemingly tries to claim credit for nearly everything. I _think_ it's because he published ideas back in the 90s or so that weren't fully executable/realized at the time, and later people figured out how to actually flesh them out do it, and supposedly didn't cite him appropriately/enough. Often the ideas weren't exactly the same - but rather he claims they're derivatives of the concept he was going for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber#Credit...

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I'll check out the link also.

Just to make it clear, you're hearing one side of the argument. There are also a lot of people who firmly believe that Schmidhuber was wrongfully deprived of recognition he deserved.

I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but the issue isn't as clear cut as your parent comment might have made it sound like.

Yes, thanks. Didn't intend to be one-sided. Not super versed in this subject so please everyone do your own research!