Schmidhuber Replies to the Pope With His 2008 Curiosity Paper on Compression Progress
prajdabre · x · 2026-10-03
- Juergen Schmidhuber replied to @Pontifex by citing his 2008 paper "Driven by Compression Progress".
- The paper argues data becomes interesting to a computationally limited observer once it can be better predicted or compressed; curiosity is the drive to find data enabling compression progress — explaining beauty, novelty, surprise, creativity, humor, and more, in humans and artificial systems alike.
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