Do the right thing : studies in limited rationality

Responsibility
Stuart Russell and Eric Wefald.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.
Physical description
1 online resource (xx, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series
Artificial intelligence (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator
Russell, Stuart J. (Stuart Jonathan), 1962-
Contributor
Wefald, Eric, -1989.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Limited rationality
  • execution architectures for decision procedures
  • metareasoning architecture
  • rational metareasoning
  • application to game playing
  • application to problem solving search
  • learning the value of computation
  • toward limited rational agents.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's summary
Like Mooki, the hero of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing, " artificially intelligent systems have a hard time knowing what to do in all circumstances. Classical theories of perfect rationality prescribe the "right thing" for any occasion, but no finite agent can compute their prescriptions fast enough. In "Do the Right Thing, " the authors argue that a new theoretical foundation for artificial intelligence can be constructed in which rationality is a property of "programs" within a finite architecture, and their behavior over time in the task environment, rather than a property of individual decisions."Do the Right Thing" suggests that the rich structure that seems to be exhibited by humans, and ought to be exhibited by AI systems, is a necessary result of the pressure for optimal behavior operating within a system of strictly limited resources. It provides an outline for the design of new intelligent systems and describes theoretical and practical tools for bringing about intelligent behavior in finite machines. The tools are applied to game planning and real-time problem solving, with surprising results.Contents Limited Rationality. Execution Architectures for Decision Procedures. Metareasoning Architecture. Rational Metareasoning. Application to Game Playing. Application to Problem Solving Search. Learning the Value of Computation. Toward Limited Rational Agents.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's summary
Like Mooki, the hero of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" artificially, intelligent systems have a hard time knowing what to do in all circumstances. Classical theories of perfect rationality prescribe the "right thing" for any occasion, but no finite agent can compute their prescriptions fast enough. In "Do the Right Thing", the authors argue that a new theoretical foundation for artificial intelligence can be constructed in which rationality is a property of "programs" within a finite architecture, and their behaviour over time in the task environment, rather than a property of individual decisions. "Do The Right Thing" suggests that the rich structure that seems to be exhibited by humans, and ought to be exhibited by AI systems, is a necessary result of the pressure for optimal behaviour operating within a system of strictly limited resources. It provides an outline for the design of new intelligent systems and describes theoretical and practical tools for bringing about intelligent behaviour in finite machines. The tools are applied to game planning and real-time problem solving, with surprising results.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Bibliographic information

Publication date
1991
Series
Artificial intelligence
Related Work
Limited rationality.
ISBN
0585342032 (electronic bk.)
9780585342030 (electronic bk.)
0262282771 (electronic bk.)
9780262282772 (electronic bk.)
0262181444
9780262181440

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