Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber. Photo credit: idsia.ch

My wide-ranging interview with Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, co-director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA in Lugano and a professor of Cognitive Robotics at the Tech University Munich, is now online at hplusmagazine.com: “Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire”.

Here is the video of Schmidhuber’s lively and informative talk at the Singularity Summit 2009:

Jürgen Schmidhuber at Singularity Summit 2009 - Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity and Creativity from Michael Anissimov on Vimeo.