Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stimuli: What Comes In
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The idea
A stimulus is anything the environment delivers to an agent — an observation the agent picks up, or an action the environment imposes on it.
In practice
A bicycle courier observes the light turn amber and is shoved by a crosswind: both are stimuli, only one was looked for.
Where people slip
What an agent cannot sense bounds its knowable world — the courier has no rear-view.
Your place on the trail
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