著者

Jürgen SCHMIDHUBER

出版者

The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

雑誌

計測と制御 (ISSN:04534662)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.1, pp.21-32, 2009-01-10 (Released:2022-06-29)

参考文献数

81

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In this summary of previous work, I 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 more “beautiful.” Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, “truly novel,” regular data that 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 recent artificial systems.