Professor Jurgen Schmidhuber has dedicated his career to advancing artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of creating self-improving AI surpassing human intelligence. His lab"s deep learning neural networks (NNs) have transformed various fields. Notably, his team"s innovations include LSTM networks and deep feedforward networks like ResNet. These technologies found applications in speech recognition, virtual assistants, and healthcare, impacting billions of devices. Schmidhuber"s theoretical contributions range from GANs to metalearning machines, exploring creativity and curiosity. He"s received multiple awards, advised governments, and held the role of Chief Scientist at NNAISENSE, contributing practically to AI development.