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Gödel Machines: Fully Self-referential Optimal Universal Self-improvers
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- Authors
- Schmidhuber, J.
- Affiliations
- Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Schmidhuber, Jürgen
- ORCID
- Schmidhuber, Jürgen
- Venue
- Cognitive Technologies
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 199-226
- ISSN
- 1611-2482 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W158468099
- Semantic Scholar
- 402a5f749c99c75c98a626539553c2e4b5939c29
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 71
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- FWCI
- 13.91
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Cognitive technologies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Logic, programming, and type systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
- Keywords
- self-improving systems, proof search, optimal complexity, utility functions, local optima avoidance
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