Munich 1991: the Roots of the Current AI Boom
Summary
Historical piece by David Ha and Jürgen Schmidhuber (June 2026) tracing how Munich's 1991 AI breakthroughs—Transformer precursors, unsupervised pre-training, distillation, deep residual learning, LSTM, and GAN concepts—laid the groundwork for today's AI boom and LLMs. It underscores the ongoing influence of TU Munich research on modern AI, with a detailed timeline and references.