Artficial intelligence chapter wise notes for the student of btech computer

Chapter Eight
Knowledge and
reasoning

8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
8.4 What is knowledge
representation?
8.5 Knowledge
representation issues
Learning objectives.
After this chapter , students will be able to :
• Learn and understand the basic concept of knowledge-
based agent
• Solve and understand the concept of Wumpus world
problem
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A knowledge-based agent
• A knowledge-based agent includes a knowledge base and
an inference system.
• A knowledge base is a set of representations of facts of the
world.
• Each individual representation is called a sentence.
• The sentences are expressed in a knowledge
representation language.
• The agent operates as follows:
1. It TELLs the knowledge base what it perceives.
2. It ASKs the knowledge base what action it should
perform.
3. It performs the chosen action.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Architecture of a knowledge-based agent
• Knowledge Level.
• The most abstract level: describe agent by saying what
it knows.
• Example: A taxi agent might know that the Golden
Gate Bridge connects San Francisco with the Marin
County.
• Logical Level.
• The level at which the knowledge is encoded into
sentences.
• Example: Links(GoldenGateBridge, SanFrancisco,
MarinCounty).
• Implementation Level.
• The physical representation of the sentences in the
logical level.
• Example: ‘(links goldengatebridge sanfrancisco
marincounty)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

The Wumpus World environment
• The Wumpus computer game
• The agent explores a cave consisting of rooms connected by
passageways.
• Lurking somewhere in the cave is the Wumpus, a beast that
eats any agent that enters its room.
• Some rooms contain bottomless pits that trap any agent that
wanders into the room.
• Occasionally, there is a heap of gold in a room.
• The goal is to collect the gold and exit the world without
being eaten
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

A typical Wumpus world
• The agent always
starts in the field
[1,1].
• The task of the
agent is to find the
gold, return to the
field [1,1] and
climb out of the
cave.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Agent in a Wumpus world: Percepts
• The agent perceives
• a stench in the square containing the wumpus and in the
adjacent squares (not diagonally)
• a breeze in the squares adjacent to a pit
• a glitter in the square where the gold is
• a bump, if it walks into a wall
• a woeful scream everywhere in the cave, if the wumpus is
killed
• The percepts are given as a five-symbol list. If there is a
stench and a breeze, but no glitter, no bump, and no scream,
the percept is
[Stench, Breeze, None, None, None]
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Wumpus world actions
• go forward
• turn right 90 degrees
• turn left 90 degrees
• grab: Pick up an object that is in the same square as
the agent
• shoot: Fire an arrow in a straight line in the direction
the agent is facing. The arrow continues until it either
hits and kills the wumpus or hits the outer wall. The
agent has only one arrow, so only the first Shoot action
has any effect
• climb is used to leave the cave. This action is only
effective in the start square
• die: This action automatically and irretrievably
happens if the agent enters a square with a pit or a live
wumpus
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Wumpus goal
The agent’s goal is to find the gold and bring it
back to the start square as quickly as possible,
without getting killed
• 1000 points reward for climbing out of the
cave with the gold
• 1 point deducted for every action taken
• 10000 points penalty for getting killed
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

The Wumpus agent’s first step
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8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Later
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Let’s Play!
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Specifying the environment
Like the vacuum world, the Wumpus world is a grid of squares
surrounded by walls, where each square can contain agents and
objects. The agent always starts in the lower left corner, a square that
we will label [1, 1]. The agent’s task is to find the gold, return to [1,
1], and climb out of the cave.
To specify the agent’s task, we specify its performance, environment,
actions, sensors [PEAS]. In the Wumpus world, these are as follows:
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Performance measure:
• 1,000 for picking up the gold.
• 1000 for falling into a pit or being eaten by Wumpus.
• One for each action taken.
• 10 for using up the arrow.
Environment:
• A 4 × 4 grid of rooms.
• The agent always starts in the square labeled [1, 1], facing to the
right.
• The locations of the gold and Wumpus are chosen randomly, with a
uniform distribution, from the squares other than the start square.
• Each square other than the start can be a pit, with probability 0.2.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Actuators:
• The agent can move forward.
• Turn left by 90°.
• The agent dies a miserable death if it enters a square containing a
pit or a live Wumpus (it is safe, albeit smelly, to enter a square with
a dead Wumpus). Moving forward has no effect if there is a wall in
front of the agent.
• The action grab can be used to pick up an object that is in the same
square as the agent.
• The action shoot can be used to fire an arrow in straight line in the
direction the agent is facing. The arrow continues until it either hits
(and hence kills) the Wumpus or hits a wall. The agent only has
one arrow, so only first shoot action has any effect.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Sensors:
• The agent has five sensors, each of which gives a single bit of
information.
• In the square containing the Wumpus and in the directly (not
diagonally) adjacent squares, the agent will perceive a stench.
• In the squares directly adjacent to pit, the agent will perceive a
breeze.
• In the square where the gold is, the agent will perceive a glitter.
• When an agent walks into a wall, it will perceive a bump.
• When the Wumpus is killed, it emits a woeful scream that can be
perceived anywhere in the cave.
• The percepts will be given to the agent in the form of list of five
symbols; for example, if there is a stench and a breeze, but no
glitter, bump, or scream, the agent will receive the percept
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

The following are the properties of task environment:
• Partially observable
• Deterministic
• Sequential (need to remember state)
• Static
• Discrete
• Single agent (Wumpus is not treated as separate agent)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Representation
• AI agents deal with knowledge (data)
• Facts (believe & observe knowledge)
• Procedures (how to knowledge)
• Meaning (relate & define knowledge)
• Right representation is crucial
• Early realisation in AI
• Wrong choice can lead to project failure
• Active research area
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Choosing a Representation
• For certain problem solving techniques
• ‘Best’ representation already known
• Often a requirement of the technique
• Or a requirement of the programming language (e.g. Prolog)
• Examples
• First order theorem proving… first order logic
• Inductive logic programming… logic programs
• Neural networks learning… neural networks
• Some general representation schemes
• Suitable for many different (and new) AI applications
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Some General Representations
1. Logical Representations
2. Production Rules
3. Semantic Networks
• Conceptual graphs, frames
4. Description Logics (see textbook)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

What is a Logic?
• A language with concrete rules
• No ambiguity in representation (may be other errors!)
• Allows unambiguous communication and processing
• Very unlike natural languages e.g. English
• Many ways to translate between languages
• A statement can be represented in different logics
• And perhaps differently in same logic
• Expressiveness of a logic
• How much can we say in this language?
• Not to be confused with logical reasoning
• Logics are languages, reasoning is a process (may use logic)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Syntax and Semantics
• Syntax
• Rules for constructing legal sentences in the logic
• Which symbols we can use (English: letters, punctuation)
• How we are allowed to combine symbols
• Semantics
• How we interpret (read) sentences in the logic
• Assigns a meaning to each sentence
• Example: “All lecturers are seven foot tall”
• A valid sentence (syntax)
• And we can understand the meaning (semantics)
• This sentence happens to be false (there is a counterexample)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Propositional Logic
• Syntax
• Propositions, e.g. “it is wet”
• Connectives: and, or, not, implies, iff (equivalent)
• Brackets, T (true) and F (false)
• Semantics (Classical AKA Boolean)
• Define how connectives affect truth
• “P and Q” is true if and only if P is true and Q is true
• Use truth tables to work out the truth of statements
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Predicate Logic
• Propositional logic combines atoms
• An atom contains no propositional connectives
• Have no structure (today_is_wet,
john_likes_apples)
• Predicates allow us to talk about objects
• Properties: is_wet(today)
• Relations: likes(john, apples)
• True or false
• In predicate logic each atom is a predicate
• e.g. first order logic, higher-order logic
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

First Order Logic
• More expressive logic than propositional
• Used in this course (Lecture 6 on representation in FOL)
• Constants are objects: john, apples
• Predicates are properties and relations:
• likes(john, apples)
• Functions transform objects:
• likes(john, fruit_of(apple_tree))
• Variables represent any object: likes(X, apples)
• Quantifiers qualify values of variables
• True for all objects (Universal): X. likes(X, apples)
• Exists at least one object (Existential): X. likes(X, apples)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Example: FOL Sentence
• “Every rose has a thorn”
• For all X
• if (X is a rose)
• then there exists Y
• (X has Y) and (Y is a thorn)
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Example: FOL Sentence
• “On Mondays and Wednesdays I go to John’s house for dinner”
 Note the change from “and” to “or”
– Translating is problematic
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Higher Order Logic
• More expressive than first order.
• Functions and predicates are also objects
• Described by predicates: binary(addition)
• Transformed by functions: differentiate(square)
• Can quantify over both
• E.g. define red functions as having zero at 17
• Much harder to reason with.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Beyond True and False
• Multi-valued logics
• More than two truth values
• e.g., true, false & unknown
• Fuzzy logic uses probabilities, truth value in [0,1]
• Modal logics
• Modal operators define mode for propositions
• Epistemic logics (belief)
• e.g. p (necessarily p), p (possibly p), …
• Temporal logics (time)
• e.g. p (always p), p (eventually p), …
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Logic is a Good Representation
• Fairly easy to do the translation when possible
• Branches of mathematics devoted to it
• It enables us to do logical reasoning
• Tools and techniques come for free
• Basis for programming languages
• Prolog uses logic programs (a subset of FOL)
• Prolog based on HOL
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Representation & Logic
• AI wanted “non-logical representations”
• Production rules
• Semantic networks
• Conceptual graphs, frames
• But all can be expressed in first order logic!
• Best of both worlds
• Logical reading ensures representation well-defined
• Representations specialised for applications
• Can make reasoning easier, more intuitive
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Knowledge representation issue
The issues that arise during victimization of KR techniques are
several. Some of these are explained in the following:
1. Important attributes: There are attributes that are of general
significance. There are two unit attributes, “instance” and “isa”,
that are of general importance. These attributes are important as
they support property inheritance.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

2. Relationship among attributes:
he relationship between the attributes of associate object, freelance of
specific data they cipher, could hold properties like inverses,
existence in associate “isa” hierarchy, techniques for reasoning
regarding values and single valued attributes.
a) Inverses
b) Existence in an “isa” hierarchy:
c) Techniques for reasoning about values:
d) Single valued attributes:
3. Choosing granularity: High-level facts might not be adequate for
illustration, whereas low-level primitives might need heaps of
storage.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

4. Set of object: The reason to represent sets of objects is described
as follows. If a property is true for all or most components of a
group, then it is more efficient to associate it once with the set rather
than to associate it with each component of the set. This is done in
different ways: in logical illustration through the utilization of
quantifier, and in hierarchal structure wherever node represents sets,
the inheritance propagates set level assertion down to individual.
5. Finding right structure: we have access to right structure for
describing a specific state of affairs. It needs to choose associated
initial structure so to reduce the selection.
8.1 Knowledge-based
agent
8.2 Wumpus world
8.3 Specifying the
environment
representation?
8.5 Knowledge

Dr. Nilakshi Jain
Email ID :
nilakshijain1986@gmail.com
Thank you

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