CS550 Midterm Exam Questions With All Correct Answers 2025

CS550 Midterm Exam Questions With All
Correct Answers 2025
What is weak AI? CORRECT ANSWERS Machines act as if they are intelligent

What is strong AI? CORRECT ANSWERS Machines think

What are agents? CORRECT ANSWERS computational entities that are able to make
decisions

What is Eliza? CORRECT ANSWERS a therapist program that was popular in the
1960s

Intelligent agents CORRECT ANSWERS - have sensors that provide percepts of
environment

Softbots CORRECT ANSWERS software only agents whose percepts are available
data.
ex: web-based reputation monitoring, game opponent

Fully vs. partially observable task environments CORRECT ANSWERS Fully
observable: state is certain

Partially observable: state is uncertain
ex: sending a rover to Mars (agent will not know what is over the hill)

Single vs. multi-agent task environments CORRECT ANSWERS Single - ex: rover

Multi-agent - ex: robots playing soccer
• Issues:
• cooperative - working w/ teammates
• competitive - working w/ opponents
• communication
• randomization to prevent predictability

What happens when an agent acts? CORRECT ANSWERS • deterministic: we know
next state

• stochastic (random): can lead to an uncertain state

An agent's decisions are either: CORRECT ANSWERS • episodic: next decision only
depends on current state

• sequential: next decision dependent on previous ones