Artificial Intelligence / Unit 2 AI 0067 short lesson, about 20 seconds
No Agent Examines Everything
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The idea
Interesting problems branch enough that no computer can examine every possible plan, so acting intelligently means choosing what not to examine.
In practice
A modest 3 choices, 16 steps deep: forty-three million plans — from arithmetic anyone can check.
Where people slip
The wall is mathematical, not technological; faster machines move it barely at all.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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