On August 6, 2006, Hutter announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge with an initial purse of 50,000 Euros, the intent of which is to encourage the advancement of artificial intelligence through the exploitation of Hutter's theory of optimal universal artificial intelligence.
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