intelligence podcast if you enjoy it subscribe on youtube itunes or simply connect with me on twitter at Lex Friedman spelled Fri D and now here's my conversation with jurgen schmidhuber early on you dreamed of AI systems that self-improve recursively when was that dream born when I was a baby no it's not true I mean it was a teenager and what was the catalyst for that birth what was the thing that first inspired you when I was a boy I'm I was thinking about what to do in my life and then I thought the most exciting thing