Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter
Portrait of Marcus Hutter
Hutter in 2010
Born14 April 1967 (1967-04-14) (age 59)
EducationTechnical 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
WorkplacesDeepMind, Google, IDSIA, ANU, BrainLAB
ThesisInstantons in QCD (1996)
Harald Fritzsch
Other academic advisors
Wilfried Brauer
Doctoral students
Shane Legg, Jan Leike and Tor Lattimore
Websitewww.hutter1.net

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

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. 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.