Intelligent Agents Quiz

What is an agent?

• An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators.

• An agent is a software program that cannot interact with the environment.

• An agent is a human who can only perceive through sight.

• An agent is a robot that does not have sensors.

What are the essential properties of agents according to Wooldridge and Jennings?

• Autonomy, social ability, reactivity, pro-activeness.

• Speed, strength, intelligence.

• Size, shape, color.

• None of the above.

What is the performance measure of a rational agent?

• An objective criterion for success of an agent's behavior.

• A subjective measure based on personal opinion.

• The number of actions taken by the agent.

• The speed of the agent's actions.

What does PEAS stand for in the context of designing a rational agent?

• Performance measure, Environment, Actuators, Sensors.

• People, Environment, Actions, Systems.

• Performance, Efficiency, Actions, Sensors.

• None of the above.

What is the performance measure for an automated taxi system?

• Safety, destination, profits, legality, comfort.

• Speed, fuel efficiency, comfort.

• Cost of operation only.

• None of the above.

What is the performance measure for a medical diagnosis system?

• Healthy patient, minimize costs, lawsuits.

• Speed of diagnosis only.

• Cost of treatment.

• None of the above.

What is the performance measure for a part-picking robot?

• Percentage of parts in correct bins.

• Speed of picking parts.

• Cost of operation.

• None of the above.

What is the performance measure for a vacuum-cleaner agent?

• Amount of dirt cleaned up, amount of time taken, amount of electricity consumed, amount of noise generated.

• Speed of cleaning only.

• Cost of operation.

• None of the above.

Does an agent A have to treat an object B as an agent or can it be treated as a stochastically behaving object?

Do the agent's sensors give it access to the complete state of the environment?

• Yes

• No