What is a Rational Agent? The Concept of Rationality - Explained
Rationality 'Rationality' is the most important concept in understanding Artificial Intelligence (If you haven't already read, take a quick look at What is Artificial Intelligence? ). To better understand AI, we can compare it with Humans. This leads us to the below four categories. Among these possibilities, a system/agent that can act rationally is good. On a high level, we define being rational as doing the right thing. But, is it always possible to do the right thing? And, what does it mean to do the right thing? For easier understanding, let's compare with humans. Is it always possible for us to do the right thing? Even though we aim to do the right thing with the knowledge we have acquired so far, we cannot guarantee the result. We learn from the outcome and consider it next time we do something similar. Similarly, acting rationally is trying to do the right thing based on the information that a system/agent has. ...