"Since age 15 or so, Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber's main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist through self-improving Artificial Intelligence (AI), then retire"...
"His formal theory of creativity & curiosity & fun explains art, science, music, and humor."
Maybe he's a mad man and maybe he just hasn't tweaked his "theory of humor" quite enough to know some people won't get it.