Marcus Hutter and his PhD students David Quarel and Elliot Catt have just published a new textbook called An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence.

"Universal AI" refers to the body of theory surrounding Hutter's AIXI, which is a model of ideal agency combining Solomonoff induction and reinforcement learning. Hutter has previously published a book-length exposition of AIXI in 2005, called just Universal Artificial Intelligence, and first introduced AIXI in a 2000 paper. I think UAI is well-written and organized, but it's certainly very dense. An introductory textbook is a welcome addition to the canon.

I doubt IUAI will contain any novel results, though from the table of contents, it looks like it will incorporate some of the further research that has been done since his 2005 book. As is common, the textbook is partly based on his experiences teaching the material to students over many years, and is aimed [...]

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