> At a very (very!) abstract level AI is compression and compression is AI. There's actually a pretty nice read from one of the key figures in data compression

> At a very (very!) abstract level AI is compression and compression is AI. There's actually a pretty nice read from one of the key figures in data compression field - Matt Mahoney: "Text Compression as a Test for Artificial Intelligence" [1]. Some interesting reads are also on his personal website, though a bit outdated now: https://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html https://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html [1] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/014/009/text_compression_as_a_test_for_artificial_intelligence.pdf https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/014/009/text_compressi...