Intelligent Agents and Rationality
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Intelligent Agents and Rationality

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What is used to refer to the information an agent’s sensors perceive?

  • Percept (correct)
  • Function
  • Action
  • Sequence
  • What is an agent’s choice of action dependent on?

  • Its environment only
  • Only its prior knowledge
  • Random selection of actions
  • Its built-in knowledge and percept sequence (correct)
  • How is an agent's behavior mathematically described?

  • By the agent function (correct)
  • Through actuated responses
  • Through percept actions
  • By the sensor function
  • In the vacuum-cleaner world example, what is an action the vacuum agent can take?

    <p>Suck up the dirt</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defines a rational agent’s expected action?

    <p>Expected performance measures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which condition is NOT considered when determining what is rational for an agent?

    <p>The physical design of the agent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What contributes to the definition of a rational agent?

    <p>Maximizing performance based on the percept sequence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of these statements about an agent's percept sequence is true?

    <p>It includes all percepts ever perceived by the agent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What differentiates a rational agent from a perfect agent?

    <p>A rational agent maximizes expected performance, while perfection maximizes actual performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In a fully observable environment, what characteristic is present?

    <p>Sensors provide complete access to the state of the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes a partially cooperative multiagent environment?

    <p>Agents compete against each other while also needing to coordinate for optimal performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defines a deterministic environment?

    <p>The next state of the environment is completely determined by the current state and actions taken.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the PEAS framework used for?

    <p>Describing the task environment in terms of Performance, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can an environment be classified as stochastic?

    <p>Its next state depends on probabilistic outcomes rather than deterministic ones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which situation describes a single-agent environment?

    <p>An agent delivering packages with no external interference.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of a partially observable environment?

    <p>The sensor data may be incomplete or distorted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What characterizes episodic tasks compared to sequential tasks?

    <p>Episodic tasks do not depend on past actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defines a dynamic environment for an agent?

    <p>The environment changes while the agent is deciding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which environment does the agent need to learn how it operates?

    <p>Unknown environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes simple reflex agents?

    <p>They take current percepts and directly map them to actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main advantage of static environments for agents?

    <p>Agents are not affected by changes during actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is the agent function related to the agent program?

    <p>The agent function considers the entire percept history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one challenge faced by AI when designing an agent program?

    <p>Writing simple programs that can produce rational behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of agent programming requires classes of actions based on goals?

    <p>Goal-based agents</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Model-based reflex agents maintain an internal state reflecting percept history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of knowledge is required by a model-based reflex agent to update its internal state?

    <p>Transition model and sensor model.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>To create a new internal state description.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In goal-based agents, what additional aspect is tracked alongside the state of the world?

    <p>A set of goals the agent is trying to achieve.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do simple reflex agents generate their actions?

    <p>Based solely on the current percept.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main role of the CONDITION-ACTION rule in simple reflex agents?

    <p>To define actions based on specific current conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do model-based reflex agents need to encode to track world states effectively?

    <p>How the world changes and how states are reflected in percepts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic limitation of simple reflex agents?

    <p>They cannot operate when faced with unexpected situations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does a utility-based agent use to choose actions?

    <p>A combination of a model of the world and a utility function</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What advantage does learning provide to agents in unknown environments?

    <p>It enables agents to operate and improve beyond their initial knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What role does the critic play in a learning agent?

    <p>It provides feedback on the agent's performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which representation splits each state into variables or attributes?

    <p>Factored representation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary responsibility of the problem generator in a learning agent?

    <p>To suggest actions for new experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does the learning element influence the performance element in an agent?

    <p>By modifying it based on feedback</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What defines an atomic representation of a state in the context of agents?

    <p>Each state is treated as indivisible with no internal structure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key characteristic of structured representations in intelligent agents?

    <p>They relate objects and their relationships in a meaningful way</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Intelligent Agents

    • An agent is anything that perceives its environment through sensors and acts upon it through actuators.
    • A percept is the content of an agent's sensors.
    • A percept sequence is the agent's complete history of everything it has perceived.
    • An agent's choice of action at any given instant can depend on its built-in knowledge, the entire percept sequence observed up to that point, but not on anything it hasn't perceived.
    • An agent's behavior is described by an agent function that maps any given percept sequence to an action.
    • An agent program implements the agent function.
    • An agent architecture is the physical computing device that runs the program with sensors and actuators.
    • Agent = Architecture + Program
    • The agent program takes the current percept as input and returns an action to the actuators.
    • The difference between agent program (current percept) and the agent function (entire percept history).

    Rationality

    • Rationality at any moment depends on:
      • Performance measure (success criterion)
      • Prior knowledge of the environment
      • The actions the agent can perform
      • The agent's percept sequence to date
    • A rational agent selects an action that is expected to maximize its performance measure given the available evidence and built-in knowledge, for every possible percept sequence.

    Environment Properties

    • 1. Fully Observable vs. Partially Observable:
      • Fully observable: agent's sensors provide complete information about the environment's state at each point in time.
      • Partially observable: sensors don't provide a complete state, or state is missing due to noisy/inaccurate sensors
    • 2. Single-agent vs. Multiagent:
      • Single-agent: an agent solving a crossword puzzle
      • Multiagent: competitive (chess) and partially cooperative (taxi driving)
    • 3. Deterministic vs. Nondeterministic:
      • Deterministic: environment's next state is fully determined by the current state and the agent's action
      • Nondeterministic: environment's next state isn't fully determined (not predictable)
    • 4. Episodic vs. Sequential:
      • Episodic: agent's experience is divided into atomic episodes (e.g., each episode is independent from the others; one choice/action).
      • Sequential: current decision affects all future decisions (e.g., a game of chess).
    • 5. Static vs. Dynamic:
      • Static: environment doesn't change while the agent is deliberating.
      • Dynamic: environment changes during deliberation.
    • 6. Discrete vs. Continuous:
      • Discrete: a finite set of possible states and actions.
      • Continuous: infinite number of possible states and actions
    • 7. Known vs. Unknown:
      • Known: outcomes or outcome probabilities are known.
      • Unknown: agent needs to learn how the environment works.

    Agent Programs (Structures)

    • Simple Reflex Agents:
      • Agents select actions based solely on the current percept.
      • They ignore the rest of the percept history.
    • Model-based Reflex Agents:
      • Maintain some internal state to reflect aspects of the environment that are not present in the current percept. Maintain a model of how the world evolves.
      • Use a "transition model" (how the world changes), and a "sensor model" (how the world state reflects in agent's perceptions). A key function is "UPDATE-STATE".
    • Goal-based Agents:
      • Track current world state and a set of goals.
      • Choose actions that will lead to achieving goals.
    • Utility-based Agents:
      • Track world state, and use a "utility function" to measure preferences among states.
      • Choose actions to maximize expected utility.

    Learning Agents

    • Any type of agent can be a learning agent (or not).
    • Learning allows agents to operate in initially unknown environments and become more competent than their initial knowledge alone might allow. Learning agents have a "performance element" program to select actions and a "learning element" to improve performance.
    • A "critic" provides feedback on agent performance to the learning element. A "problem generator" suggests actions to gather new, informative experiences.

    Agent Representation

    • Atomic: No internal structure; each state is indivisible.
    • Factored: States broken into variables with values.
    • Structured: Representations like relational databases, representing objects and relationships.

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