Comment by LogicFailsMe

And Google's acquisition of DNN Research to get the ball rolling with conv nets and AI moneyball, followed by the acquisition of Deepmind. Schmidhuber IMO *has* been recognized as one of the 4 horseman and rightly so, but what has he done lately? Just noticed they now say the 3 godfathers of AI. This is what people hate about academia. It's not academia itself, it's the mean girl politics that emerge from the tenure system. And at this point, tenure should be abolished IMO having been utterly weaponized to defend the status quo.