"Since age 15 or so, Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber's main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire"...
"His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor."
Maybe he's a mad man and maybe he just hasn't tweaked his "theory of humor" quite enough to know some people won't get it.
What do you mean, maybe? Schmidhuber is insane, in the best possible way. He's exactly the kind of person for whom academia exists: an incredibly competent, devoted scientist who won't stand for bullshit cooked up by marketing departments.
"His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor."
I've also read papers of his that take completely off-the-wall pot-shots at other researchers.