Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

December 23, 2018

Duration

1h 19m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Jürgen Schmidhuber

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Jürgen Schmidhuber, Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #11 explores jurgen Schmidhuber on self-improving AI, curiosity, and universal intelligence Lex Fridman and Jürgen Schmidhuber discuss foundational ideas for building truly general, self-improving AI systems. Schmidhuber contrasts narrow, practical deep learning (like LSTMs and transfer learning) with his theoretical work on meta-learning, Gödel machines, and asymptotically optimal universal problem solvers. They explore curiosity, creativity, and compression as core principles of both human and machine intelligence, arguing that intelligence and even consciousness emerge as side effects of efficient problem solving and data compression. The conversation extends to evolution, the nature of physical reality, future robot learning, economic impact, and the possibility that humanity may be the first civilization poised to fill the universe with intelligence.

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