<story><title>Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge</title><url>http://prize.hutter1.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slashdev</author><text>I think the mistake here is to require lossless compression.&lt;p&gt;Humans and LLMs only do lossy compression. I think lossy compression might be more critical to intelligence. The ability to forget, change your synapses or weights, is crucial to being able to adapt to change.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge</title><url>http://prize.hutter1.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omoikane</author><text>500000 EUR is the prize pool.  Each winner has to gain at least 1% improvement over previous record to claim a prize that is proportional to the improvement.  Getting the full 500000 EUR prize requires an 100% improvement (i.e. compressing 1GB to zero bytes).</text></comment>