Questions tagged [rationality]

I'm having a little trouble with the definition of rationality, which goes something like: An agent is rational if it maximizes its performance measure given its current knowledge. I've read that a simple reflex agent will not act rationally in a…

This just popped into my head, and I haven't thought it through, but it feels like a sound question. The definition of intelligence might still be somewhat fuzzy, possibly a factor of our evolving understanding of "intelligence" in regard to…

With so much innovation, with so much previous human manual labor being performed in minutes or seconds by an artificial intelligence, one day man will put the survival and propagation of his species above his ideologies and cultures. I am worried…

This is the vacuum cleaner example of the book "Artificial intelligence: A Modern Approach" (4th edition). Consider the simple vacuum-cleaner agent that cleans a square if it is dirty and moves to the other square if not; this is the agent function…