I extremely dislike the Hutter Prize. I think it's generally agreed that intelligence compresses the model better & therefore it's reasonable to assume that the

I extremely dislike the Hutter Prize. I think it's generally agreed that intelligence compresses the model better & therefore it's reasonable to assume that the better the compression, the more intelligence you have (at least for now where we are with AI, this seems to be a roughly reasonable assumption). My problem with the Hutter prize is that it makes the leap to say that lossless compression is this when everything about AI is choosing how much error you're willing to tolerate. In other words, intelligence is linked to lossy compression, not lossless - a competition for lossless compression doesn't do anything more than get us better lossless compressors / decompressors.