Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter
Portrait of Marcus Hutter
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnical University Munich and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Known forUniversal artificial intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence
AwardsIJCAI 2023
Alignment 2018
AGI 2016
UAI 2016
IJCAI-JAIR 2014
Kurzweil AGI 2009
Lindley 2006
Best Paper Prizes
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsDeepMind, Google, IDSIA, ANU, BrainLAB
ThesisInstantons in QCD (1996)
Doctoral advisorHarald Fritzsch
Other academic advisorsWilfried Brauer
Doctoral studentsShane Legg, Jan Leike and Tor Lattimore
Websitewww.hutter1.net

Marcus Hutter (born April 14, 1967 in Munich) is a computer scientist, professor and artificial intelligence researcher. As a senior researcher at DeepMind, he studies the mathematical foundations of artificial general intelligence.[1][2]

Hutter studied physics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich. In 2000 he joined Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Manno, Switzerland.[3][4] He developed a mathematical formalism of artificial general intelligence named AIXI. He has served as a professor at the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics of the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.[5]

  1. ^ "HomePage of Marcus Hutter".
  2. ^ "TIME100 AI 2023: Shane Legg". Time. 7 September 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Marcus Hutter". aiandsociety.org. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Professor Marcus Hutter". Australian National University. Retrieved 25 August 2024.