AI Foundations, PEAS, Tasks

November 22, 2023

Anonymous
• Define AI. State its applications.
• What is AI? Write about the History of AI.
• State different foundations that led to the growth of AI.
• What is PEAS? Explain with two suitable examples.
• Define heuristic function. Give an example heuristic
function for solving an 8-puzzle problem.
• Write states, Initial States, Actions, Transition Model and
Goal test to formulate 8 Queens problem.
• Write states, Initial States, Actions, Transition Model and
Goal test to formulate Toy problem.
• Explain following task environments.
a) Discrete Vs Continuous
b) Known Vs Unknown
c) Single Agent vs. Multiagent
d) Episodic vs. Sequential
e) Deterministic vs. Stochastic
f) Fully observable vs. partially observable
• Explain Simple Reflex Agent.
• Explain Model Based Agent.
• Describe Utility based agent.
Explain each question by using 5 points and highlight all the questions and use simple
language for explanation

ChatGPT
AI Definition and Applications:
• Definition: AI (Artificial Intelligence) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in

machines that are programmed to think, learn, and problem-solve like humans.
• Applications:

1. Natural Language Processing (NLP): Understanding, interpreting, and generating

human language by machines (e.g., chatbots, translation services).
2. Computer Vision: Machines interpreting visual information (e.g., facial recognition,
 object detection).
3. Robotics: Designing and controlling robots for various tasks (e.g., manufacturing,
surgery).
4. Machine Learning: Algorithms that improve automatically through experience (e.g.,
recommendation systems, predictive analytics).
5. Autonomous Vehicles: Development of vehicles capable of navigating and operating
without human input.

History of AI:
• 1950s: The birth of AI as a formal field with Alan Turing proposing the Turing Test for

machine intelligence.
• 1956: The Dartmouth Conference marks the official start of AI as a field.
• 1960s-1970s: Periods of initial enthusiasm, followed by funding cuts known as "AI winters."
• 1980s-1990s: Advances in expert systems, neural networks, and rule-based systems.
• 2000s-Present: Rapid growth due to increased computational power, big data, and

advancements in machine learning techniques like deep learning.

Foundations Leading to AI Growth:

1. Mathematics: Theoretical foundations like logic, probability, and statistics.
2. Philosophy: Exploration of cognition, reasoning, and intelligence.
3. Neuroscience: Understanding the brain's functioning and applying insights to AI.
4. Computer Science: Development of algorithms, programming languages, and
computational techniques.
5. Psychology: Insights into human cognition and behavior that contribute to AI models and
systems.

PEAS:
• PEAS stands for Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, and Sensors.
• Examples:

5.1. Taxi Driver Agent:

• Performance Measure: Safe, timely, and efficient arrival at destinations.
• Environment: Roads, traffic, weather, passengers.
• Actuators: Steering wheel, accelerator, brakes.
• Sensors: Cameras, GPS, speedometer.

5.2. Chess Playing Agent:

• Performance Measure: Winning the game.
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 • Environment: Chessboard, opponent's moves.
• Actuators: Chess pieces, strategy decisions.
• Sensors: Vision system to perceive the board.

Heuristic Function:
• Definition: A heuristic function estimates the cost from a given state to the goal in AI

search algorithms.
• Example (8-Puzzle Problem):

A heuristic could be the Manhattan distance of each tile from its goal position; the sum of
distances of each tile to its correct place.

8 Queens Problem:
• States: Arrangements of 8 queens on an 8×8 chessboard where no queen attacks another.
• Initial State: An empty chessboard.
• Actions: Placing a queen in a valid position.
• Transition Model: Moving from one state to another by placing a queen.
• Goal Test: Ensuring no queens can attack each other.

Toy Problem:
• States: Various configurations of a simplified problem.
• Initial State: The starting configuration of the problem.
• Actions: Possible moves or operations allowed in the problem.
• Transition Model: How actions change the state.
• Goal Test: Conditions determining when the problem is solved.

Task Environments Explanation:

• Discrete vs. Continuous: Discrete involves distinct, separate states (e.g., chess moves),

while continuous involves infinite possibilities (e.g., real-time motion).

• Known vs. Unknown: Known environments have fully understood rules, while unknown

ones have uncertain or changing rules.

• Single Agent vs. Multiagent: Single agents operate alone, while multiagents interact and

cooperate/compete in the environment.

• Episodic vs. Sequential: Episodic tasks are isolated from each other, while sequential

tasks have dependencies or a sequence of actions.

• Deterministic vs. Stochastic: Deterministic tasks have predictable outcomes, while

stochastic tasks involve randomness or uncertain outcomes.

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• Fully vs. Partially Observable: Fully observable environments provide complete

information, while partially observable ones have limited or incomplete information.

Simple Reflex Agent:

• Operates based on: Immediate sensory input.
• Actions determined by: Condition-action rules.
• Lacks: Internal state or memory.
• Example: A thermostat responding to temperature changes by turning heating on/off.
• Limited to: Reactive responses to immediate stimuli.

Model-Based Agent:
• Utilizes: Internal model of the world/environment.
• Uses: Past experiences to predict the effects of actions.
• Benefits: Allows for planning and decision-making based on expected outcomes.
• Example: A chess-playing program simulating possible moves to predict future game

states.

Utility-Based Agent:
• Makes decisions based on: Evaluating outcomes against a utility function or preferences.
• Considers: Not just achievement but also the desirability of outcomes.
• Example: A self-driving car choosing routes based not only on speed but also on factors

like scenic views or fuel efficiency.

• Aims: Maximizes expected utility rather than just achieving goals.

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AI Models: Concepts & Strategies
November 22, 2023

Anonymous
• Describe Goal based agent.
• Describe a Learning agent in detail.
• Explain Depth First Search (DFS) strategy in detail.
• Explain Breadth First Search (BFS) strategy along with
its pseudocode.
• Explain Uniform Cost Search with suitable examples.
• Write a short note on Depth Limited Search Strategy.
• Write a short note on Iterative Deepening Depth First
Search Strategy.
• Write a short note on Bidirectional Search.
• Explain Thinking rationally and acting rationally
approaches of AI.
• Write a short note on Thinking Humanly and Acting
Humanly approaches of AI.
• Describe problem formulation of vacuum world problem.
• Explain Artificial Intelligence with the Turing Test
approach.
• What are PEAS? Mention it for Part picking robot and
Medical Diagnosis system.
• Sketch and explain the agent structure in detail.
• Explain A* search Algorithm. Also explain conditions of
optimality of A*.
• Explain Greedy Best First Search Strategy.
Explain each question by using 5 points and highlight all the questions and use simple
language for explanation

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Goal-based agent:
• Definition: A goal-based agent operates by considering actions and making decisions

based on achieving specific objectives or goals. It evaluates available actions to select the
one that brings it closer to its predefined goals.
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• Components:

1. Goal Formulation: Defining objectives or states to achieve.

2. Problem Formulation: Translating goals into a structured problem.
3. Search and Execution: Searching for solutions and executing actions to achieve goals.
4. Feedback: Receiving feedback based on the achieved outcome and adjusting
strategies accordingly.
5. Knowledge Base: Utilizing knowledge and information to make decisions aligned with
the set goals.

Learning agent:
• Description: A learning agent gathers information from its environment, gaining

experience and improving its performance over time through learning mechanisms.
• Components:

1. Percept: Sensory inputs or observations from the environment.

2. Learning element: Part that acquires knowledge or modifies behavior.
3. Performance element: Component taking actions based on knowledge and information.
4. Critic: Provides feedback and evaluates the agent's performance.
5. Problem generator: Suggests actions for exploration and learning.

Depth First Search (DFS):

• Explanation: DFS is a search algorithm that explores as far as possible along each branch

before backtracking.
• Strategy: It goes deep into the search tree, prioritizing exploration of deeper levels, and

then backtracks to explore other branches.

• Stack-based Implementation: Uses a stack to keep track of nodes to be visited.
• Complete for finite spaces: It is complete for finite search spaces but might get stuck in

infinite spaces without proper precautions.

• Memory Usage: Can consume less memory compared to BFS in certain cases due to its

depth-first nature.

Breadth First Search (BFS):

• Explanation: BFS explores all neighbors of a node before moving to the next level, visiting

nodes in the shallowest order.

• Queue-based Implementation: Uses a queue to manage the order of node exploration.
• Pseudocode:

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 BFS(Graph, startNode):
queue.enqueue(startNode)
while queue is not empty:
node = queue.dequeue()
if node has not been visited:
mark node as visited
for each neighbor of node:
queue.enqueue(neighbor)

• Complete & Optimal: BFS is complete and finds the shortest path if all step costs are

equal.
• Memory Intensive: Requires more memory compared to DFS.

Uniform Cost Search (UCS):

• Explanation: UCS explores paths based on their cumulative costs from the start node,

choosing the lowest-cost path to expand.

• Example: Consider a map where distances between locations represent costs; UCS would

prioritize paths with lower cumulative distances.

• Optimality: It guarantees finding the optimal path when costs are non-negative.
• Queue Management: Uses a priority queue where nodes are ordered based on their path

costs.

Depth Limited Search Strategy:

• Description: It's a variation of DFS that limits the maximum depth of exploration.
• Termination Condition: Stops exploring a branch when it reaches a specified depth limit.
• Completeness and Optimality: It's not complete or optimal in general unless the solution

exists within the depth limit.

• Memory Usage: Uses less memory than the standard DFS.

Iterative Deepening Depth First Search (IDDFS):

• Approach: Performs DFS repeatedly with increasing depth limits until the solution is

found.
• Completeness: Guarantees to find a solution if one exists.
• Memory Usage: Consumes more memory than DFS due to multiple iterations but avoids

pitfalls of DFS in infinite spaces.

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• Optimality: If the step cost is uniform, it finds the optimal solution.

Bidirectional Search:
• Explanation: Runs two simultaneous searches, one forward from the start node and one

backward from the goal node.

• Termination: Stops when the two searches meet in the middle.
• Reduced Complexity: Reduces the search space by focusing on meeting in the middle

rather than exhaustively searching the entire space.

• Memory Usage: Requires storing explored nodes in both directions.

Rational Approaches of AI:

• Thinking Rationally: Making decisions based on logical reasoning, deducing conclusions

from available information.

• Acting Rationally: Choosing actions that lead to the best possible outcomes based on

available information and goals.

Human Approaches of AI:

• Thinking Humanly: Understanding human cognition and replicating human thought

processes.
• Acting Humanly: Mimicking human behavior and actions in response to various situations.

Vacuum World Problem Formulation:

• States: Different configurations of the vacuum cleaner and dirt in rooms.
• Actions: Move left or right, suck dirt, or do nothing.
• Transition Model: Defines how actions change the state of the environment.
• Goal: Clean all dirty rooms.

Turing Test Approach in AI:

• Explanation: Evaluates a machine's ability to exhibit human-like intelligence in

conversation.
• Test Scenario: Involves a human judge conversing with a machine and a human without

knowing which is which.

• Criterion: The machine is considered intelligent if the judge cannot reliably distinguish

between the machine and the human.

PEAS for Part Picking Robot and Medical Diagnosis

 System:
• Part Picking Robot:
• Performance measure: Accuracy and speed in picking parts.
• Environment: Factory floor or warehouse.
• Actuators: Grippers, motors for movement.
• Sensors: Cameras, proximity sensors for detecting parts.
• Medical Diagnosis System:
• Performance measure: Accuracy of diagnosis, time taken for diagnosis.
• Environment: Hospital or clinical setting.
• Actuators: Display system for presenting results.
• Sensors: Patient data, medical reports.

Agent Structure:
• Agent: Comprises sensors for observing the environment, actuators for taking actions, a

knowledge base for storing information, and an inference engine for decision-making.
• Sensors: Collect information from the environment.
• Actuators: Perform actions based on the agent's decisions.
• Knowledge Base: Stores information used by the agent.
• Inference Engine: Analyzes information and decides on actions.

A* Search Algorithm:
• Explanation: A* combines the advantages of both UCS and Greedy Best-First Search by

considering both the cost-so-far and estimated cost-to-go to make decisions.

• Conditions of Optimality:
• Admissible Heuristic: The heuristic used must never overestimate the true cost to

reach the goal.

• Consistency: The heuristic should follow the triangle inequality.

Greedy Best First Search Strategy:

• Explanation: It selects the node that appears to be the closest to the goal according to a

heuristic function, without considering the actual cost to reach that node.
• Heuristic Function: Estimates the cost from the current node to the goal, guiding the

search.
• Completeness and Optimality: Not guaranteed to be complete or optimal due to its

myopic approach.
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Search Techniques Overview AI
November 22, 2023

Anonymous
• Explain Recursive Best-First search algorithm.
• Define AI. Explain different components of AI.
• What are various informed search techniques? Explain in
detail.
• What are various uninformed search techniques? Explain
in detail.
• Give the difference between DFS and BFS.
• What is an Agent? Describe structure of intelligent
agents.
• Give the difference between Unidirectional and
Bidirectional search methods.
Explain each question by using 5 points and highlight all the questions and use simple
language for explanation

ChatGPT
Recursive Best-First Search Algorithm:
1. Definition: Recursive Best-First Search (RBFS) is a memory-efficient variant of the Best-
First Search (BFS) algorithm, aiming to find the optimal path in a graph or tree by
evaluating nodes based on a heuristic function.
2. Operation: It recursively explores the most promising node, initially choosing the node
with the lowest estimated cost from the root, then revising this choice dynamically during
the search.
3. Process: RBFS maintains a trail of alternate nodes, preserving their values for revisiting if
necessary, while prioritizing the exploration of nodes likely to lead to the optimal solution.
4. Advantages: RBFS utilizes limited memory compared to other search algorithms by
storing minimal information in the recursive calls, thus allowing it to handle large graphs
efficiently.
5. Limitations: RBFS may encounter inefficiencies in highly branching or cyclical structures
due to the nature of revisiting nodes and storing their state in recursion, potentially
 leading to increased time complexity.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) & its Components:

1. Definition: AI refers to the development of computer systems capable of performing tasks
that typically require human intelligence. It encompasses a wide array of techniques and
applications.
2. Components: AI comprises various components:
• Machine Learning: Algorithms that enable systems to learn from data and make

predictions or decisions without explicit programming.

• Natural Language Processing (NLP): Techniques allowing computers to understand,

interpret, and generate human language.

• Computer Vision: Enables machines to interpret and process visual information from

images or videos.
• Expert Systems: Rule-based systems that emulate human expertise in specific

domains.
• Robotics: Integrates AI with machines to perform tasks in physical environments.

Informed Search Techniques:

1. Definition: Informed search algorithms utilize problem-specific knowledge (heuristics) to
guide the search towards the goal state more efficiently than uninformed techniques.
2. Examples: A* algorithm, Greedy Best-First Search, Recursive Best-First Search.
3. Heuristics: These algorithms use heuristics to estimate the cost or distance from the
current state to the goal, making informed decisions about which paths to explore first.
4. Efficiency: Informed techniques often outperform uninformed ones in terms of search
time, especially in scenarios where heuristic information is accurate.
5. Optimality: Depending on the quality of the heuristic function used, informed techniques
can achieve optimality by finding the best possible solution.

Uninformed Search Techniques:

1. Definition: Uninformed search algorithms explore the search space without considering
any additional information other than the problem's structure.
2. Examples: Breadth-First Search (BFS), Depth-First Search (DFS), Uniform Cost Search
(UCS).
3. Operation: These algorithms expand nodes in a systematic manner without exploiting any
domain-specific knowledge or heuristics.
4. Completeness: Some uninformed techniques like BFS are complete, guaranteeing a
 solution if one exists within a finite search space.
5. Drawbacks: Uninformed search methods might be inefficient or ineffective in large or
complex search spaces due to their blind nature of exploration.

Difference Between DFS and BFS:

1. Strategy: DFS explores as far as possible along a branch before backtracking, while BFS
explores all nodes at the present depth before moving on to the next level.
2. Memory Usage: BFS generally uses more memory since it stores all nodes at each level,
while DFS uses memory proportional to the maximum depth of the search tree.
3. Completeness: BFS is complete if the branching factor is finite and the depth is not
infinite; DFS might not find a solution if the search space is infinite or the graph is cyclic.
4. Optimality: BFS guarantees finding the shallowest goal, ensuring optimality in terms of
path length, whereas DFS does not guarantee optimality.
5. Applications: BFS is suitable for finding shortest paths, while DFS is advantageous in
scenarios like maze-solving or game-tree searches.

Agent and Structure of Intelligent Agents:

1. Agent Definition: An agent refers to any entity, virtual or physical, that perceives its
environment through sensors and acts upon that environment through effectors, aiming
to achieve specific goals.
2. Structure of Intelligent Agents: Components of intelligent agents include:
• Perception: Sensors to gather information about the environment.
• Reasoning: Internal processes that allow the agent to make decisions or predictions

based on acquired information.

• Actuation: Effectors or actuators that enable the agent to perform actions in its

environment.
• Goal-setting: Defines the objectives or goals the agent strives to achieve.
• Learning: Capacity to adapt and improve performance through experience or data.

Unidirectional vs. Bidirectional Search Methods:

1. Unidirectional Search: Proceeds from the initial state to the goal state in a single direction,
exploring the search space by expanding nodes in one direction only.
2. Bidirectional Search: Simultaneously explores from both the initial and goal states,
meeting in the middle when both searches find a common node or state.
3. Efficiency: Bidirectional search often reduces the search space and time by meeting at an
intermediate state, resulting in faster convergence.
4. Completeness: Both methods can be complete, but bidirectional search might fail if the
search space is not fully accessible from both ends.
5. Applicability: Bidirectional search is suitable for problems with well-defined initial and
goal states, reducing the search space when both directions are known and traversable.
Unidirectional search is used in scenarios where only one end state is known or needed.

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