With uncertainty, an agent typically cannot guarantee to satisfy its goals, and even trying to maximize the probability of achieving a goal may not be sensible uncertainty and risk the term technological singularity reflects the idea that such change may happen suddenly, and that it is difficult to predict how the resulting new world would operate. The fourth uncertainty in artificial intelligence workshop was held 1921 august 1988. So far we have dealt with knowledge representation where we know that something is either true or false. Pdf uncertainty in artificial intelligence researchgate. Artificial intelligence i matthew huntbach, dept of computer science, queen mary and westfield college, london, uk e1 4ns. Reasoning under uncertainty chapter 6 artificial intelligence. Uncertainty let action at leave for airport tminutes before flight will atget me there on time. Uncertainty in artificial intelligence sciencedirect.
By weighing likelihoods of events probabilities we can develop mechanisms for. Reasoning under uncertainty research in ai is focused on uncertainty of truth value,in order to find the values other than true and false. The papers focus on methods of reasoning and decision making under uncertainty as applied to problems in artificial intelligence ai and cover topics ranging from knowledge acquisition and automated model construction to learning, planning, temporal reasoning, and machine vision. The workshop featured significant developments in application of theories of representation and reasoning. Let action at denote leaving for the airport t minutes before the. Intro to artificial intelligence reasoning under uncertainty. Questions of reasoning under logical uncertainty 1 introduction. Notes on reasoning with uncertainty so far we have dealt with knowledge representation where we know that something is either true or false. Notes may be used with the permission of the author. Nonmonotonic logics in ai when new information is added to the system and if the truthfulness of a conclusion remains same. Conditional probability probability of an event given the occurrence of some other event. One can hardly identify a field in artificial intelligence ai that doesnt use some sort of uncertain reasoning, namely, processes leading from evidence or clues to. When intelligent agents must make decisions, they have to use whatever information they have. Artificial intelligence i notes on reasoning with uncertainty.
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