Preparation

Reading Russel & Norvig Chapter 2

Briefing

See Lecture on Rational Agents

• What is AI?
  • Act or think? Humanly or rationally?
• Aristotle’s algorithm implemented by Newell & Simon (GPL)
  • means-ends analysis

Rational Agents

• Rational Agents
  • Hume on is-ought
• Agent: perceive and act
  • vs machine learning
• Paradigms
  1. Simple reflex
  2. Model
  3. Goal
  4. Utility
  5. Learning
• Problem Generator

Exercises