Artificial Intelligence

Agent’s job

________ is to identify the action or series of actions that lead to the goal.

Websters Dictionary

________- Intelligence: The ability to learn and solve problems.

solution

A _______ is a(n) sequence of action (a plan) which transforms the start state to a goal state.

available information

Acting Rationally- expected to maximize goal achievement, given the ________.

Rational Agent

________- one that acts so as to achieve the best outcome, or when there is uncertainty, the best expected outcome.

Wikipedia

Artificial Intelligence is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software

McCarthy

The science and engineering of making intelligent machines

Russel and Novig

The study and design of intelligent agents, where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success

Andrew Ng

Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery, I think AI has the potential to free humanity from a lot of mental drudgery

Major Components of AI

1. Knowledge


2. Reasoning


3. Language
4. Understanding
5. Learning

Rational Agent

one that acts so as to achieve the best outcome, or when there is uncertainty, the best expected outcome

Two kinds of search

Uninformed and Informed Search

Four school of thoughts

1. Thinking Humanly
2. Acting Humanly
3. Thinking Rationally
4. Acting Rationally

5 examples of Applications of AI

1. Speech recognition
2. handwriting Recognition
3. Machine translation
4. Robotics
5. Recommendations system

7 foundations of AI

1. Mathematics
2. Philosophy
3. Linguistics
4. Psychology
5. Sociology
6. Economics
7. Computer Science

Reflex Agent

does not consider future consequences of their actions

Planning Agent

Considers consequences of their actions to based their decisions on.

Search Problems consists of

1. A state space
2. a successor or function (with actions, costs)
3. A start state and a goal state

Root node

start state of a search tree

Depth-First-Search

Vertical before horizontal

Breadth- First-Search

Horizontal before vertical

Turing Test

a three-person game made by Alan Turing in the 1950 in which a computer uses written communication to try to fool a human interrogator into thinking that it's another person.

State space graphs

a mathematical representation of a search problem with each state only occurs once.

Search Trees

tree of plans and their outcomes