Ch 2 Review

Question 1

What is an agent

Answer 1

anything that perceives its environment through sensors and acts upon the environment through effectors (ex. human has eyes for sensors, hands for effectors)

Question 2

what is a performance measure

Answer 2

how successful an agent is (how much dirt cleaned up, how much electricity used)

Question 3

omniscient agent

Answer 3

knows actual outcome of its actions and can act accordingly (realistically impossible)

Question 4

ideal rational agent

Answer 4

maximizes performance measure

Question 5

mapping

Answer 5

table of action to take in response to percept sequence

Question 6

autonomy

Answer 6

actions based on built-in knowledge, doesn’t need to pay attention to percepts; to point where behavior is determined by own experience

Question 7

agent program

Answer 7

function that implements mapping; uses physical architecture

Question 8

architecture

Answer 8

computing device

Question 9

agent equation

Answer 9

agent = architecture+program

Question 10

parts of learning agent

Answer 10

critic(feedback, how doing, what to modify) , learning element (make improvements), performance element (make external action), problem generator (suggest actions for new experiences)