Hutter's updated An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence (Dec 2024 edition)
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-20
Marcus Hutter, David Quarel and Elliot Catt's An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence has a December 2024 edition (Cambridge Hall, ISBN 9781032607029).
- A more gentle, longer introduction than Hutter (2005), sequenced to its sequel and covering advanced topics like CTV and GoD
- Spans AIXI, Bayesian inference, algorithmic information theory, universal sequence prediction, rational agents, RL, multi-agent systems, approximation methods, AI safety and philosophy of AI
- Includes pseudocode, practical approximations, and links to some implementations
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