On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:

> ...
> ... The goal of the Hutter prize is just the language modeling part of the
> problem.


Not "Compressing Human Knowledge"?

Interesting that the language models themselves were actually the goal. My
impression was that improving language models was just a tool to find
better semantic representations for AI. I must have been wrong. The goal
must have been limited to making better language models from the beginning
as you say.

It makes you wonder why Marcus Hutter thought it was so important to
improve language models.

I always thought his big thing was the statistical optimization of AI. I
must have been wrong. He was a guy who only wanted to improve language
models.

Lossless compressors work by lossy compression of the past


 Interesting definition that.

-R

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