Rational decisions
- rational: maximize achieving pre-defined goals(maximize expected utility)
- rationality only concerned decisions not the process
- goals: the utility of the outcome
Agent
- agent: perceives and acts
- rational agent: an entity that has goals and tries to perform a series of actions to maximize the expected utilities
- environment:given instantiation of the agent
- world: agent+environment
- reflex agent: do not consider the consequences
planning agents: select the best one