Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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ISBN: 9780136042594
Author: Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Suppose that the performance measure is concerned with just the first T time steps of the environment and ignores everything thereafter. Show that a rational agent’s action may depend not just on the state of the environment but also on the time step it has reached.

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Performance measure

  • It tests the student’s understanding of environment, rational actions, and performance measures.
  • Any sequential environment in which rewards may take time to arrive will work.
  • This is because it can be arranged for the reward to be over the horizon.
  • The environment state can include a clock and the action will depend on the clock as well as on the non-clock part of the state.

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