Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold

July 10, 2007 | Source: Slashdot

Alexander Ratushnyak compressed the first 100,000,000 bytes of Wikipedia to a record-small 16,481,655 bytes, thereby winning the second payout of The Hutter Prize for Compression of Human Knowledge and bringing text compression within 1 percent of the threshold for artificial intelligence estimated by the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon.