Notes on Artificial Intelligence IIT Kharagpur

Can you provide me the Notes for Lesson 1 of Module 1 of Artificial Intelligence course offered by Department of Computer Science Engineering of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kharagpur?

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The Notes for Lesson 1 of Module 1 of Artificial Intelligence course offered by Department of Computer Science Engineering of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kharagpur are as follows:

Module 1 Introduction

1.1 Instructional Objectives
– Understand the definition of artificial intelligence
– Understand the different faculties involved with intelligent behavior
– Examine the different ways of approaching AI
– Look at some example systems that use AI
– Trace briefly the history of AI
– Have a fair idea of the types of problems that can be currently solved by computers and those that are as yet beyond its ability.
We will introduce the following entities:
• An agent
• An intelligent agent
• A rational agent
We will explain the notions of rationality and bounded rationality.
We will discuss different types of environment in which the agent might operate.
We will also talk about different agent architectures.
On completion of this lesson the student will be able to
• Understand what an agent is and how an agent interacts with the environment.
• Given a problem situation, the student should be able to
o identify the percepts available to the agent and
o the actions that the agent can execute.
• Understand the performance measures used to evaluate an agent
The student will become familiar with different agent architectures
• Stimulus response agents
• State based agents
• Deliberative / goal-directed agents
• Utility based agents
The student should be able to analyze a problem situation and be able to
• identify the characteristics of the environment
• Recommend the architecture of the desired agent