What motivates humans: infants, scientists, and artists alike? What is humanity’s objective? For artificial intelligence to act in this world, what should they have as a goal? In this class you'll learn to understand the mathematical principle to explain the pursuit of beauty, novelty, creativity, art, and science. We will uncover the universal objective that will allow us to create self-driven artificial intelligence. Along that path we’ll delve into Kolmogorov complexity, information theory, provably optimal actions, reinforcement learning (and predictive models), among many other topics!