Artificial Curiosity & Creativity: Schmidhuber's Hilarious Talk at the Singularity Summit 2009

Excerpts from Jürgen Schmidhuber's hilarious talk at the Singularity Summit 2009 (NYC), on his Algorithmic Theory of Beauty & Curiosity & Creativity which explains Science & Art & Humor, and on Optimal Universal Problem Solvers & Gödel Machines & Artificial Intelligence as a Formal Science.
Full video (40min) at Vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/7441291
by Michael Anissimov

Overview sites with more information and scientific papers:
Theory of curiosity & creativity - how to build artificial scientists and artists: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html
Optimal Universal Artificial Intelligence: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html
Gödel Machines: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html
Artificial Evolution: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolution.html
Reinforcement Learning: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rl.html
Source code of machine learning algorithms at Pybrain: http://pybrain.org/
Home page: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Artificial Curiosity
• Artificial Creativity
• Artificial Intelligence
• Recurrent Neural Networks
• Machine Learning
• Humanoid Robots
• Artificial evolution
• German Jokes

[josieheppe]

This is absolutely brilliant. The first convincing theory of creativity and beauty I have ever seen. And it even explains a lot of humor - see a recent interview with Juergen Schmidhuber for details:

[funnybots]

A very unusual professor! I love his funny moments at 0:05 - German makes fun of himself :-) 3:50 Columbus joke :-) 4:27 small audience joke :-) 8:00 Godel / Schwarzenegger joke :-)

[NickRoeder]

@seanotube85 Lol.

[seanotube85]

This guy's awesome and hilarious. He's like a German scientist version of Christopher Walkins.

[MrA5gregjockca]

@purplegreendahlia schmidhuber is a robot! CAN'T YOU SEE, YOU ASSHOLES!!! he's an alien. he must be destroyed before it's too late and he gives birth to an alien baby. LMAO! no seriously. DESTROY! life is too short to appreciate beauty. giggles.

[twistedbydsign99]

Thought he was gonna say mises :(

[4tim4tim]

As someone said at the Singularity Summit: Jürgen Schmidhuber is the Leonardo da Vinci of our era! Brilliant scientist and artist at the same time. Have you seen his drawing of a self-similar woman at 6:35 of the video? Made from pure mathematics! Blows me away. Also check out his H+ magazine interview "Build An Optimal Scientist, Then Retire" where I posted essentially the same comment a while ago.

[purplegreendahlia]

JS really gives interessting and entertaining talks... and he seems to be a fascinating personality with all his AI stuff.