Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart Russell
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The classical example of multiple inheritance conflict is called the 'Nixon Diamond.' It arises from the observation that Nixon was both a Quaker (and hence a pacifist) and a Republican (and hence not a pacifist).
Aeronautical engineering texts do not define the goal of their field as making “machines that fly so exactly like pigeons that they can fool even other pigeons.
Real cognitive science, however, is necessarily based on experimental investigation of actual humans or animals. We will leave that for other books, as we assume the reader has only a computer for experimentation.
Although greed is considered one of the seven deadly sins, it turns out that greedy algorithms often perform quite well.
For many purposes, we need to understand the world as having things in it that are related to each other, not just variables with values. For example, we might notice that a large truck ahead of us is reversing into the driveway of a dairy farm but a cow has got loose and is blocking the truck’s path. A factored representation is unlikely to be pre-equipped with the attribute TruckAheadBackingIntoDairyFarmDrivewayBlockedByLooseCow with value true or false
The Turing Test, proposed by Alan Turing (1950), was designed to provide a satisfactory operational definition of intelligence. Acomputerpasses thetestifahumaninterrogator, after posing some written questions, cannot tell whether the written responses come from a person orfromacomputer.
Die meisten Menschen stellen sich unter der Wirtschaftswissenschaft nur Geld vor, aber die Wirtschaftswissenschaftler sagen, dass sie eigentlich untersuchen, wie Menschen Entscheidungen treffen, die zu bevorzugten Ergebnissen führen.
Keiner der Informatiker im Team spricht Arabisch, doch sie beherrschen statistische Verfahren und maschinelle Lernalgorithmen.
