Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize

Baldrson writes "If you think you can compress a 100M sample of Wikipedia better than paq8f, then you might want to try winning win some of a (at present) 50,000 Euro purse. Marcus Hutter has announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge the intent of which is to incentivize the advancement of AI through the exploitation of Hutter's theory of optimal universal artificial intelligence. The basic theory, for which Hutter provides a proof, is that after any set of observations the optimal move by an AI is find the smallest program that predicts those observations and then assume its environment is controlled by that program. Think of it as Ockham's Razor on steroids. Matt Mahoney provides a writeup of the rationale for the prize including a description of the equivalence of compression and general intelligence."

Comments

But captain

[Anonymous Coward]

Marcus Hutter has announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge the intent of which is to incentivize the advancement of AI through the exploitation of Hutter's theory of optimal universal artificial intelligence.

But captain, if we reverse the tachyon inverter drives then we will have insufficient dilithium crystals to traverse the neutrino warp.

Re:But captain

[Anonymous Coward]

You left out the part involving the deflector shield. Remember, the first rule of star trek technobabel is always involve the deflector in some way.

lossy compression

[RenoRelife]

Using the same data lossy compressed, with an algorithm that was able to permute data in a similar way to the human mind, seems like it would come closer to real intelligence than the lossless compression would

Who'da thunk...

[blueadept1]

Man, WinRar is taking its bloody time. But oh god, when its done, I'll be rich!

Re:Can it be "lossy" compression?

[Bill Kilgore]

I have a program that compresses 100M of Wikipedia to one bit with no loss at all. The program is somewhat special-purpose, and at 100,024,076 bytes, a little chunkier than I'd like.

Solution.

[Funkcikle]

Removing all the incorrect and inaccurate data from the Wikipedia sample should "compress" it down to at least 20mb.

Then just apply your personal favourite compression utility.

I like lharc, which according to Wikipedia was invented in 1904 as a result of bombarding President Lincoln, who plays Commander Tucker in Star Trek: Enterprise with neutrinos.

Incentivize?

[noidentity]

the intent of which is to incentivize the advancement of AI

Sorry, anything which uses the word "incentivize" does not involve intelligence, natural or artificial.

I'll try:

[dcapel]

echo "!#/bin/sh\nwget en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/" > archive

Mine wins as it is roughly 40 bytes total.To get your results, you simply need to run the self-extracting archive, and wait. Be warned, it will take a while, but that is the cost of such a great compression scheme!