Do AIs Need to Have Fun?

The AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber has argued in a talk that there is a precise way to optimize a self-improving superintelligence based upon Godel’s mathematics. He further explained this in a paper audaciously named “Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation”. He says “The simple but general formal theory of fun & intrinsic motivation […]

Jonathan No Comments May 14, 2016 1:07 pm

What Will the World be like in 2053?

(Note: this was originally posted as an invited answer on Quora. However, by writing this I extended my previous thinking in some new ways, so I thought it should also appear here.) I’ll turn 100 in that year, so I’m pleased you chose it. As I see it, assuming we avoid scenarios in which civilization implodes, […]

Jonathan No Comments February 6, 2016 5:21 pm