Intelligence from Learnable Novelty

Published
Source
arXiv
Paper number
691
Field
Machine Learning
arXiv ID
2607.18433

Key points

  • It shows that the three forms of intelligence, data compression, universal computation, and adaptive behavior, all come from a single principle: maximizing learnable novelty.
  • It recovers the Turing-complete rule 110 as the top one-dimensional cellular automaton, which is consistent with decades of complexity-ranking research.
  • It achieves representation learning that separates MNIST digit classes without labels, which is fully unsupervised.
  • When used as intrinsic reward in reinforcement learning, it improves performance in 9 of 10 environments.
  • It has a mathematical structure that avoids both the noisy-TV trap and the dark-room trap.

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