Schmidhuber resurfaces his 1990 world-models work: consciousness as data compression
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-10-05
Jürgen Schmidhuber reposted his claim that artificial consciousness, world models, predictive coding, and "science as data compression" were all covered by his recurrent world-model and artificial-curiosity work dating back to 1990.
He links a 2016 panel video from an NYC AI conference organized by David Chalmers — with Daniel Kahneman, Susan Schneider, Gary Marcus, and Jaan Tallin — where he gave a sub-10-minute impromptu explanation of these ideas, plus his 1990/1991 papers and blog pages on planning and RL with recurrent world models.
Classic self-citing Schmidhuber, but the linked papers and video remain a useful entry point into the intellectual history of world models.
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