Week 1 - Week 2

Question 1

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Answer 1

AI is a branch of computer science which deals with making a computer system to learn and act humanly.

Thinking Humanly
Acting Humanly

Question 2

Sensors

Answer 2

Through which the agent can observe and perceive its surroundings and behavior. All the details that an agent gets from the environment is through these sensors. These sensors can provide information about various things such as about the temperature, weather conditions, traffic, noise, or anything.

Question 3

Actuators

Answer 3

Through which an agent can Act upon the environment and can cause some effect on it. An agent must perform some specific functions or else it is useless. So, any task which a system performs is through its actuators. These can be internal processing chips whose working may be hidden from the user or can be visible moving actuators such as machine arms which may move back and forth.

Question 4

Characteristics of an agent

Answer 4

Agent comprises of architecture and Agent program.
Agent architecture is the computing device and the Agent program if the function that implements agent mapping.
An agent has some abilities, some goals, preferences, and some prior knowledge.
An agent has two components: sensors and actuators.
From the environment, it perceives past experiences and observations.
On the environment, it performs actions.

Question 5

Performance

Answer 5

The output which we get from the agent. All the necessary results that an agent gives after processing comes under its performance.

Question 6

Environment

Answer 6

All the surrounding things and conditions of an agent fall in this section. It basically consists of all the things under which the agents work.

Question 7

Agent

Answer 7

is an entity that perceives
its “environment” and acts upon it

Question 8

LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)

Answer 8

is a remote sensing method that uses light [in
the form of a pulsed laser] to measure distances