Overview -> Rational Agents -> lecture

Briefing

• What is AI?
  • Act or think? Humanly or rationally?
• A rational agent is one that chooses the right action.
  • what is right?
  • Hume on is-ought
• Aristotle’s algorithm implemented by Newell & Simon (GPL)
  • means-ends analysis
  • we deliberate on means, not on ends

Rational Agents

• Agent: perceive and act
  • vs machine learning
• Paradigms
  1. Simple reflex
  2. Model
  3. Goal
  4. Utility
  5. Learning
• Problem Generator