Schmidhuber: current LLMs lack true creativity because they ignore his 2008 theory
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-17
Jürgen Schmidhuber argues current LLMs aren't truly creative because they haven't implemented his 2008 "Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity" and the compression-progress principle, which he says explains beauty, novelty, surprise, curiosity, art and science.
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