Class description

(ripped off from our Canvas whoops)

How can we design artificial systems to be rational agents, capable of learning about the world and pursuing goals in sensible, intelligent ways? And what can such AI research, where computational and memory limitations are front and center, tell us about the rationality of cognitively limited humans? This course explores these questions through the lens of research in AI and in philosophy. We will cover the concepts of rationality and agency, whether and in what sense artificial systems can have mental states, probabilistic reasoning and learning from experience, decision-making under uncertainty, sequential decision-making, and decision-making in multi-agent settings.

My notes

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Key insights

Here are some nuggets of insights that I wrote down while cleaning up my course notes - that I want to engrain in my brain!