1 js8765, January 1, 2011 at 10:58 p.m.:

What's with the hat? All it does it focus people's attention on the fact that you must be bald...

2 Mike, January 3, 2011 at 4:37 p.m.:

This is fantastic stuff. The first general algorithmic theory of scientific and artistic creativity, based on maximizing a reward function that measures "fun" obtained by making new non-trivial patterns with previously unknown regularities. Almost frightening to imagine what might happen if this stuff gets implemented on humanoid robots. They will want to have fun, too, and pursue their own "creative" goals all the time, not necessarily the goals of their teachers ...

3 Ed Warner, January 6, 2011 at 1:16 p.m.:

Dr. Schmidhuber's theory of humor views jokes as subjectively unexpected patterns in the sense of algorithmic information theory. After learning or understanding a new joke one needs fewer bits to encode it than before. To evaluate the compression progress or fun, just count the saved bits. I feel this is a simple yet very deep insight. And he's applying the theory of humor well throughout the talk :-)

4 Erick, February 27, 2011 at 4:31 p.m.:

too primitive, disputable and useless theory. author has to study more abstract mathematics, he seems to be bad in it :). cap is funny, it seems to be a part of image or as it was told substitution of hair :-D

5 Office Neighbor, March 4, 2011 at 9:33 a.m.:

Erick S.K. writing letters again ... if you found a flaw in the math, which I greatly doubt, why don't you publish your findings in a peer-reviewed journal? You could submit your analysis to the IEEE Transactions, which published a survey of the theory.