Forwarded from the GP (Genetic Programming) list (see end).
An interesting take on creativity, etc... that I thought may
be of interest to CAS members:
Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle
Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty,
Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity,
Art, Science, Music, Jokes (2008)
Based on keynote talk for KES 2008 and
joint invited lecture for ALT 2007 / DS 2007.
Variants to appear in SICE Journal & Proc. ABIALS
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 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 recent artificial systems.
arXiv preprint: http://arXiv.org/abs/0812.4360
Overview site with papers on the theory of
surprise & interestingness & attention & curiosity etc:
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html
Juergen Schmidhuber, TUM & IDSIA
http://www6.in.tum.de/Main/Schmidhu
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/
PS: Jobs related to this topic:
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/eu2009.html
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