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title: Lecture on Rational Agents
categories: lecture
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[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