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SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCINCE
PRESENTATION ON
RATIONALITY AND RATIONAL AGENTS
PRESENTED BY:-
GANGAM SHIVA SANDEEP
REDDY
(2021MCA38)

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The Concept Of Rationality
• Arationalagentisonethatdoestheright thing.
• Everyentryinthetableisfilledoutcorrectly.
• Whatistherightthing?
• Approximation: themostsuccessfulagent
• Measureofsuccess?
• Performancemeasureshouldbeobjective
• E.g.theamountofdirtcleanedwithinacertaintime.
• E.g.howcleantheflooris.
• Performance measureaccordingtowhatiswantedinthe
environmentinsteadof howtheagentsshouldbehave.

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RATIONALITY
 Status of being reasonable , sensible and having
good sense of judgement.
 Rationality is concern with expected action and
results depending upon what the agent has
perceived.
 Performing actions with the aim of obtaining useful
information .
 A rational agent always perform right action .
 Good at problem solving.
 The performance measure is determined by the
degree of success.

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RATIONALITY FUNCTIONS
Rationality depends on four functions
• The performance Rationality
measure that defines the criterion of
success.
• The agent's prior knowledge of the
environment.
• The actions that the agent can
perform.
• The agent's percept sequence to
date.
 Rational Agents use for Game theory
and Decision theory for various real-
world scenarios.

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Rationality Eg;

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Decision Making Example:

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Input to an Agent
• Abilities — the set of possible actions it can perform
Goals/Preferences — what it wants, its desires, its values,.
• Prior Knowledge — what it comes into being knowing,
what it doesn’t get from experience, . . . • History of stimuli
— what it receives from environment now (observations,
percepts)
• past experiences — what it has received in the past

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Examples of Rational
Autonomous delivery robot roams around an office environment
and delivers coffee, parcels, . . .
• Diagnostic assistant helps a human troubleshoot problems and
suggests repairs or treatments. E. g. , electrical problems,
medical diagnosis.
• Intelligent tutoring system teaches students in some subject
area.
• Trading agent buys goods and services on your behalf.

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Example Responses Delivery Robot •
• What does the Delivery Robot need to do? ?
• Abilities: movement, speech, pickup and place objects.
• Prior knowledge: its capabilities, objects it may encounter, maps.
• Past experience: which actions are useful and when, what objects are there, how its
actions affect its position.
• Goals: what it needs to deliver and when, tradeoffs between acting quickly and acting
safely.
• Observations: about its environment from cameras, sonar, sound, laser range finders, or
keyboards.

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Abilities: recommends fixes, ask questions.
Prior knowledge: how switches and lights work, how malfunctions manifest themselves, what
information tests provide, the side effects of repairs.
• Past experience: the effects of repairs or treatments, the prevalence of faults or diseases.
• Goals: fixing the device and tradeoffs between fixing or replacing different components.
• Observations: symptoms of a device or patient.
Responses Diagnostic System

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Trading Agent :
• Abilities: acquire information, make recommendations, purchase items.
• Prior knowledge: the ontology of what things are available, where to purchase items, how to
decompose a complex item.
• Past experience: how long special last, how long items take to sell out, who has good deals, what your
competitors do.
• Goals: what the person wants, their tradeoff.
• Observations: what items are available, prices, number in stock,

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Intelligent Tutoring System
• Abilities: Present information, give tests
• Prior knowledge: subject material, primitive strategies
• Past experience: common errors, effects of teaching strategies
• Goals: the students should master subject material, gain social skills,
study skills, inquisitiveness, interest
Observations: test results, facial expressions, questions, what the student
is concentrating on

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Rational Agent
⦿ AI is about building rational agents.
⦿ An agent is something that perceives and
acts.
⦿ A rational agent always does the right
thing as-
What are the Functionalities ?(Goals)
What are the components?
How do we build them?

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Rational Agent:
For each possible percept sequence, a rational agent
should select an action (using an agent function) that
is expected to maximize its performance measure,
given the evidence provided by the percept sequence
and whatever built-in prior knowledge the agent has.
A percept sequence is the complete history of
anything the agent has ever perceived.
A performance measure is a means of calculating how
well the agent has performed based on the sequence
of percepts that it has received.
 An agent’s prior knowledge of the environment is the
knowledge that the agent designer has given to the
agent before its introduction to the environment.
 AI is creating rational agents to use for Game Theory and
Decision theory for various real world scenarios.

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Vaccum Cleaner:

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Rational Agent:
An agent function maps percept sequences to actions.
f : seq(P) A
Agent function for vacuum Cleaner example:

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What is Ideal Rational Agent?
 “For Each possible Percept sequence a
rational agent should select an action that
expected maximize the performance
measures given evidence provided by
percept sequence and whatever built in
knowledge”

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Task Environments
Performance Measures used to evaluate how well an agent solves the task at hand
eg: Safe, fast,legal, comfortable trip max profits
Environment surroundings beyond the control of the agent
eg: Roads , other trafic , pedestrians, customers
Actuators used by the agent to perform actions
Eg: Steering wheel, accelerator, brake,signal, horn
Sensors provide information about current state of Env
Eg: Cameras, sonar, speedometer, GPS , odometer,
keyboard , enginde sensor

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Omniscience, Learning, Autonomy
• Rationality is distinct from omniscience (all- knowing with infinite
knowledge)
• Agents can perform actions in order to modify future percepts so as to
obtain useful information (information gathering, exploration)
• A rational agent should not only gather information, but also learn as
much as possible from what it perceives
• An agent is autonomous if its behavior is determined by its own
experience (with ability to learn and adapt). Rational agents should be
autonomous.

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PEAS

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PEAS Describtion Of
Automated Taxi:
Performance
Safety, destination, profits, legality, comfort
Environment
Streets/motorways, other traffic, pedestrians, weather
Actuators
Steering, accelerator, brake, horn, speaker/display
Sensors
Video, sonar, speedometer, engine ,sensors, keyboard, GPS

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Examples :

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Conclusion
 We Concluding that Rationality agent
is built in with intense to satisfy the
world of AI immense computing
abilities and significant decision
making .
 With Enhanced learning and better
coordinated activities better and
moreintelligent agents would be
made.

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THANK YOU!!
G.ShivaSandeep
2021MCA38