AI: Hutter Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge 1G to 115M = €500k

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http://prize.hutter1.net/

Hutter Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge
This compression contest is motivated by the fact that being able to
compress well is closely related to acting intelligently, thus
reducing the slippery concept of intelligence to hard file size
numbers. In order to compress data, one has to find regularities in
them, which is intrinsically difficult (many researchers live from
analyzing data and finding compact models). So compressors beating the
current "dumb" compressors need to be smart(er). Since the prize wants
to stimulate developing "universally" smart compressors, we need a
"universal" corpus of data. Arguably the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
is a good snapshot of the Human World Knowledge. So the ultimate
compressor of it should "understand" all human knowledge, i.e. be
really smart. enwik9 is a hopefully representative 1GB extract from
Wikipedia.