In Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes Jürgen Schmidhuber describes, using the idea of using compression progress on perceived data as an intrinsic reward signal:
[Artists] create action sequences yielding interesting inputs, where interestingness is a measure of learning progress, for example [...] the saved number of bits needed to encode the data.
Has such a (purely generative) system been created before? Say, one that creates 2d images?
