3-1. Introduction

And the answer is no, there is no solution that the agent could come up with, because Bucharest doesn’t appear on the map. And so the agent doesn’t know any actions that can arrive there. So let’s give the agent a better chance. Now we’ve given the agent the full map of Romania. The start … Read more

In this unit, we’re going to talk about problem solving. The theory and technology of building agents that can plan ahead to solve problems. In particular, we’re talking about problem solving where the complexity of the problem comes from the idea that there are many states. As in this problem here, a navigation problem where … Read more

Today, we have the privilege of meeting Peter Norvig, whose online course was Sebastian Thurn on AI, was one of the first big MOOCs. And led to Udacity and lot of entrepreneurial interest in teaching online classes. He is the director of research at Google and previously directed Google’s core search algorithms group. He worked … Read more