Introduction of AI

The Purpose of this class is twofold:

1. To teach you the basic of artificial intelligence

2. To excite you 

 

A AI program is called intelligent agent.

The intelligent agent gets to interact with an environment. And the agent can perceive the state of the environment through its sensors. And it can affect its state through its actuators. 

The big question of artificial intelligence is the function that maps sensors to actuators. That is called the control policy for the agent. So all of this class will deal with how does an agent make decisions that it can carry out with its actuators based on the past data. And this decision will take place many times. And the loop of environment feedback to sensors, agent desicion, actuator interaction with the environment and so on is called perception action cycle.