I think you are all missing the point that Schmidhuber has basically invented Chat-GPT in the 90s already. Just with smaller networks, smaller datasets and less compute power. Although even Schmidhuber basically just stole from Gauss, but no one talks about that.

I can totally relate. I basically also invented the U-Net architecture and had the paper on the review process when I learned about the Ronneberg paper. Plus he had a website and shared the code while my group was still debating how to license the code. Fast forward to today, U-Net as something like 50k citations and my paper about 500, which is still great and much more what I expected starting as a PhD student. But in hindsight also a bit disappointing knowing what I did and how much credit I got.