#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
February 26, 2020
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Episode 75 · February 26, 2020
#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
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#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI
Summary
<p>Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has proposed a lot of interesting ideas in and around the field of artificial general intelligence, including the development of the AIXI model which is a mathematical approach to AGI that incorporates ideas of Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, and reinforcement learning.</p>
<p>EPISODE LINKS:<br />
Hutter Prize: <a href="http://prize.hutter1.net">http://prize.hutter1.net</a><br />
Marcus web: <a href="http://www.hutter1.net">http://www.hutter1.net</a><br />
Books mentioned:<br />
– Universal AI: <a href="https://amzn.to/2waIAuw">https://amzn.to/2waIAuw</a><br />
– AI: A Modern Approach: <a href="https://amzn.to/3camxnY">https://amzn.to/3camxnY</a><br />
– Reinforcement Learning: <a href="https://amzn.to/2PoANj9">https://amzn.to/2PoANj9</a><br />
– Theory of Knowledge: <a href="https://amzn.to/3a6Vp7x">https://amzn.to/3a6Vp7x</a></p>
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<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
03:32 – Universe as a computer<br />
05:48 – Occam’s razor<br />
09:26 – Solomonoff induction<br />