Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

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dc.creatorSchmidhuber, Juergen
dc.date2008-12-23
dc.date2009-04-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:03:35Z
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dc.descriptionI argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively simpler and more beautiful. Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising not in the traditional sense of Boltzmann and Shannon but in the sense that it allows for compression progress because its regularity was not yet known. This drive maximizes interestingness, the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve. It motivates exploring infants, pure mathematicians, composers, artists, dancers, comedians, yourself, and (since 1990) artificial systems.
dc.description35 pages, 3 figures, based on KES 2008 keynote and ALT 2007 / DS 2007 joint invited lecture
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
dc.identifierShort version: J. Schmidhuber. Simple Algorithmic Theory of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes. Journal of SICE 48(1), 21-32, 2009
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/226852
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectNeural and Evolutionary Computing
dc.titleDriven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
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