Artificial Intelligence Lecture 3
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Which of the following environments is considered partially observable?

  • Vacuum Cleaner
  • Solitaire
  • Taxi (correct)
  • Chess with a clock

What characteristic of an environment indicates that it has multiple agents?

  • Static environment
  • Single-agent environment
  • Multi-agent environment (correct)
  • Deterministic environment

In which environment is the process considered episodic?

  • Vacuum Cleaner (correct)
  • Chess with a clock
  • Solitaire
  • Taxi

Which of the following best describes the structure of an agent?

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For an agent program to be functional, what must the architecture possess?

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Which environment is categorized as static?

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What is the primary function of an agent program?

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Which of the following environments is deterministic?

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What characterizes a static environment?

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Which example illustrates a dynamic environment?

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A semi-dynamic environment is defined by what characteristic?

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Which of these environments is classified as discrete?

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What is an example of a single agent environment?

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In what type of environment do agents operate with respect to each other?

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What characteristic defines a fully observable environment?

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What environment type is described as partially cooperative multiagent?

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Which environment type dictates the design of the agent involved?

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Which of the following is an example of a partially observable environment?

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What is a key feature of a deterministic environment?

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In which type of environment does the outcome of one action not affect future decisions?

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Which environment type is exemplified by the game of chess?

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What differentiates a strategic environment from others?

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Which scenario illustrates a dynamic environment?

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What defines a stochastic environment?

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What is the primary function of the architecture in an intelligent system?

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Which type of agent ignores the history of percepts when making decisions?

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How do simple reflex agents determine their actions?

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What are the four basic kinds of agent programs mentioned?

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In what situation does a simple reflex agent operate effectively?

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What is a characteristic of utility-based agents?

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What connection is typically made by simple reflex agents?

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Which of the following statements about agent architecture is true?

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What is the primary function of the UPDATE-STATE in model-based reflex agents?

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Why is knowing the current state of the environment sometimes insufficient for decision-making in goal-based agents?

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How do goal-based agents differ fundamentally from reflex agents?

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What advantage do goal-based agents have over reflex-based agents?

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What kind of information does a goal-based agent need in addition to the current state?

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Which of the following correctly highlights a limitation of goal-based agents?

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In goal-based agents, how is the evaluation of potential actions performed?

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What role does knowledge about how the world evolves play in model-based reflex agents?

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What is the main limitation of simple reflex agents?

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What role does the INTERPRET-INPUT function play in a simple reflex agent?

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How do model-based reflex agents handle partial observability?

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What two types of knowledge are essential for updating the internal state of a model-based agent?

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Which of the following statements about reflex agents is true?

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What is the purpose of the RULE-MATCH function in a simple reflex agent?

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What distinguishes a model-based reflex agent from a simple reflex agent?

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What is essential for a successful simple reflex agent operation?

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Fully Observable Environment

An environment where the agent can perceive the complete state of the world.

Partially Observable Environment

An environment where the agent's perception of the world is incomplete due to noisy sensors or missing state information.

Deterministic Environment

The environment's next state is predictable given the current state and agent's action.

Stochastic Environment

The environment's next state is uncertain, even with known current state and agent's action.

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Episodic Environment

Environment where each episode is independent of others; action depends only on current episode.

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Sequential Environment

Environment where the agent's actions in one step influence future steps.

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Static Environment

Environment that does not change while the agent is making decisions.

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Strategic Environment

A deterministic environment influenced by other agents' actions.

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Static Environment

A static environment doesn't change while an agent makes decisions, so the agent doesn't need to monitor the world or worry about time.

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Dynamic Environment

A dynamic environment constantly requires the agent to decide on actions. It's continually changing.

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Semi-Dynamic Environment

The environment itself doesn't change, but the agent's score does.

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Discrete Environment

Environment with distinct, well-defined states, percepts, and actions. (Finite states)

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Continuous Environment

Environment with infinite possible states and actions(e.g., speed & location)

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Single-Agent Environment

An environment with one agent acting independently

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Multi-Agent Environment

An environment with multiple agents interacting

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Agent Design

How the environment affects the agent's structure and operations and vice versa

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Agent Structure

An agent is composed of an agent program that maps percepts to actions and an architecture (physical device with sensors and actuators).

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Agent Program

The part of an agent that determines its actions based on the percepts it receives.

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Agent Architecture

The physical components of an agent, such as sensors and actuators, allowing it to interact with the environment.

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Environment Types

Different ways environments can be structured, such as: solvable, static, and stochastic.

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Observable Environment

Environment where whether the information about the environment is fully or partially known by the agent

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Deterministic Environment

Environment where the next state is predictable from the current state and action.

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Episodic Environment

Environment where each episode is independent from the others.

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Static Environment

Environment that doesn't change while the agent is deciding what to do.

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Simple Reflex Agent

An agent that selects actions based solely on the current percept, disregarding past perceptions.

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Condition-Action Rule

A rule in a simple reflex agent that specifies an action to be taken based on a certain condition or percept.

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Agent Architecture

The structure that takes sensor inputs, performs the agent's program, and sends results to actuators.

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Agent Program

The program an agent runs to decide on actions based on incoming percepts.

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Percept

The current sensory input from the environment received by the agent.

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Actuator

The component that translates the agent's actions into real-world changes in the environment.

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Vacuum agent

An example of a simple reflex agent where actions depend solely on the current location and if dirt is present.

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Agent

A system that perceives its environment through sensors and acts on that environment through actuators.

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Simple Reflex Agent

An agent that directly maps percepts to actions based on predefined rules. It only considers the current situation.

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Model-based Reflex Agent

An agent that maintains an internal state, tracking the world's unobserved aspects. It uses a model of how the world evolves and how actions affect it.

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Internal State

The state of an agent that reflects its history of percepts and actions, providing context about the current state of the environment.

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Percept

The agent's current observation of its environment. It can be anything from sensor inputs to direct information about the environment.

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Partial Observability

The environment's state isn't fully visible to the agent. The agent needs internal modeling to understand the full state.

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Rule-Matching

Process of selecting a rule from a set of rules based on the current state description.

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Model of the World

Knowledge about the environment's independent behavior and the agent's effects.

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Agent Program

The set of instructions a simple reflex agent follows to make decisions.

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Model-based reflex agents

Agents that use a model of the environment to predict future states and choose actions accordingly.

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UPDATE-STATE function

A function within a model-based agent that updates internal state representations by incorporating new percepts and knowledge about world evolution and agent actions.

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Goal-based agents

Agents that make decisions based on achieving specific goals instead of solely reacting to the current situation.

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Goal-based vs. reflex-based agents

Goal-based agents are more flexible due to explicit, modifiable knowledge for decision-making, whereas reflex agents solely rely on pre-defined rules.

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Goal information

Agent's knowledge about desired states or situations (e.g., reaching a destination).

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Decision-making (goal-based)

Agent decision-making process that accounts for future states and the agent's aim to achieve a goal; differs from the condition-action rules of reflex agents.

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Agent program (goal-based)

Agent program that combines goal information with information about possible actions' results to choose actions that achieve the goal.

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Flexibility in agents

Goal-based agents are more adaptable because their decision-making knowledge is explicit and customizable.

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Study Notes

Course Information

  • Course Title: Artificial Intelligence
  • University: Mansoura University
  • Department: Information System Department
  • Lecturer: Amir El-Ghamry
  • Lecture Number: 3

Outlines

  • The nature of environments
  • The structure of agents
  • Types of agents program

The Nature of Environments

  • Designing a rational agent requires specifying the task environment.
  • Specifying the task environment (PEAS):
    • Performance measure (how to assess the agent)
    • Environment (elements around the agent)
    • Actuators (how the agent changes the environment)
    • Sensors (how the agent senses the environment)
  • The first step in designing an agent is specifying the task environment (PEAS) completely.

Examples of Agents

  • Agent Type: Satellite Image System
    • Performance: Correct image categorization
    • Environment: Downlink from satellite
    • Actuators: Display categorization of scene
    • Sensors: Color pixel array
  • Agent Type: Part-picking Robot
    • Performance: Percentage of parts in correct bins
    • Environment: Conveyor belt with parts, bins
    • Actuators: Jointed arm and hand
    • Sensors: Camera, joint angle sensors
  • Agent Type: Interactive English Tutor
    • Performance: Maximize student's score on test
    • Environment: Set of students, testing agency
    • Actuators: Display exercises, suggestions, corrections
    • Sensors: Keyboard entry

Environments Types

  • Fully observable vs. partially observable
  • Deterministic vs. stochastic
  • Episodic vs. sequential
  • Static vs. dynamic
  • Discrete vs. continuous
  • Single agent vs. multiagent

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • Fully observable: Agent's sensors provide access to the complete state of the environment at each point in time.
  • Partially observable: Noisy and inaccurate sensors or missing parts of the state from sensor data.
    • Examples: Vacuum cleaner with local dirt sensor, taxi driver
  • Deterministic: The next state of the environment is completely determined by the current state and the action.
    • Uncertainties are not present in a fully observable deterministic environment.
    • Examples: Chess, deterministic while taxi driver is not
  • Stochastic: The next state of the environment is not completely determined by the current state and the action.
    • Examples: Taxi driver (because of actions of other agents). Parts of the environment can be deterministic.

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • Episodic: Agent's experience divided into atomic "episodes" where the choice of action in each episode depends on that episode only.
    • Examples: Mail sorting robot
  • Sequential: The current decision could affect all future decisions.
    • Examples: Chess and taxi driver

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • Static: The environment is unchanged while an agent is deliberating.
    • Examples: Crossword puzzles
  • Dynamic: The environment continuously changes.
    • Examples: Taxi driving
  • Semi-dynamic: Environment does not change with the passage of time, but the agent's performance score does with the passing of time.
    • Examples: Chess when played with a clock

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • Discrete: Limited number of distinct states and actions
    • Examples: Chess
  • Continuous: Number of infinite states and actions
    • Examples: Taxi driving (speed and location are continuous values)

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • Single agent: Agent working independently in the environment
    • Examples: Crossword puzzle
  • Multiagent: Multiple agents interacting in the environment
    • Examples: Chess, taxi driving

Environments Types (cont'd)

  • The simplest environment is fully observable, deterministic, episodic, static, discrete and single-agent.
  • The real world is usually partially observable, stochastic, sequential, dynamic, continuous and multiagent.

The Structure of Agent

  • Agent = agent program + architecture
  • Agent program: Implements the agent function to map percept sequences to actions.
  • Architecture: Computing device with physical sensors and actuators. Should be appropriate for the task (e.g., legs for walking)

The Structure of Agent (cont'd)

  • Architecture makes percepts available to the program.
  • Program runs.
  • Program's action choices sent to the actuators.

Agent Program

  • All agents have essentially the same skeleton
  • Agent takes current percept from sensors, and returns action to actuator.

Types of Agents

  • Four basic agent kinds: Simple reflex, model-based reflex, goal-based, utility-based.

Simple Reflex Agents

  • Agents select actions based on the current percept, ignoring past history.
  • Example: Vacuum agent decides based on current location and dirt status.

Simple Reflex Agents (cont'd)

  • Agents use condition-action rules.
  • Example: If car in front is braking then initiate braking.

Simple Reflex Agents (cont'd)

  • Agent program: Agent program takes percepts as input, and uses the rule-match function to find the first rule that matches the current internal state
  • Using INTERPRET-INPUT, it then generates an abstracted description of the current state from the percept.

Model-based Reflex Agents

  • Maintain an internal state reflecting past percepts (to handle partial observability).
  • The internal state is updated based on both the new percept and knowledge of how the world evolves
  • The internal state includes the agent's previous actions and their effects on the world

Model-based Reflex Agents (cont'd)

  • The program needs knowledge about how the world evolves, and how the agent's actions affect the world.
  • This knowledge is called a model of the world.

Goal-Based Agents

  • Agents have goals, and choose actions that achieve those goals.
  • Agents consider the results of actions to determine which actions best advance their goals.

Goal-Based Agents (cont'd)

  • Goal-based agents can be contrasted/compared to reflex agents
  • Goal agents are more flexible
  • Their knowledge is explicitly represented

Utility-Based Agents

  • Utility functions map states to real numbers (representing happiness).
  • Agents choose actions that lead to states with the highest utility.

Learning Agents

  • Agents can improve their performance over time by learning from feedback.
  • Structure components of learning agent:
    • Learning element
    • Performance element
    • Critic
    • Problem generator

Learning Agents (cont'd)

  • Components of learning agents are modified according to feedback.

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