Let's read: Sutton's RL, week 2, chap 3

For week 2, we will do:

• Read the definition given for artificial intelligence in Wikipedia and in the Nilsson book on p13; 
• google for and read “John McCarthy basic questions”, “the intentional stance (dictionary of philosophy of mind)”
• Sutton & Barto Chapter 3 to Section 3.5

Reading

From Wikipedia: 

intelligence demonstrated by machines, ... "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, ... a machine [that] mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving".

From The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009), Nils Nilsson:

intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment... Because “functioning appropriately and with foresight” requires so many different capabilities, depending on the environment, we actually have several continua of intelligences with no particularly sharp discontinuities in any of them. For these reasons, I take a rather generous view of what constitutes AI.