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An intelligent system perceives its environment, reasons or learns from what it perceives, and acts to achieve a goal. Courses usually frame this as a rational agent that selects the action expected to perform best against a stated performance measure.

A rational agent selects, for each sequence of percepts, the action expected to maximise its performance measure given its knowledge. Rationality is about making the best use of available information, not about being right, since an agent can act rationally and still fail.

Simple reflex agents act on the current percept, model-based reflex agents keep internal state, goal-based agents search for action sequences reaching a goal, utility-based agents maximise expected utility where outcomes differ in value, and learning agents improve their behaviour from experience.

Uninformed search uses only the problem definition, as in breadth-first and depth-first search. Informed search also uses a heuristic estimating the cost remaining to a goal, as in greedy best-first and A*, which usually explores far fewer nodes to find a solution.

A* expands the node with the lowest value of f, the cost already incurred plus the heuristic estimate of the cost remaining. It is complete and, with an admissible heuristic that never overestimates, it returns an optimal solution, which is why it is the usual recommended choice.

An admissible heuristic never overestimates the true cost of reaching the goal from a node. Admissibility is what guarantees A* finds an optimal path. A consistent, or monotonic, heuristic additionally satisfies a triangle inequality, which avoids having to reopen nodes during graph search.

Knowledge representation is how facts and relationships are encoded so a system can reason with them. Common forms are propositional and first-order logic, production rules, semantic networks, frames and ontologies. Each trades expressive power against the cost of inference, so the choice depends on what the system must conclude.

Deductive reasoning derives conclusions that must follow from the premises, so it is certain but adds no new facts. Inductive reasoning generalises from examples, so it supports new conclusions that may be wrong. Machine learning is mainly inductive in character.

Fuzzy logic allows a value to belong partially to a set, so a temperature may be 0.7 warm. A fuzzy controller fuzzifies inputs, applies linguistic rules, then defuzzifies to one output value. It suits control problems where categories have no sharp boundary.

Fuzzy membership measures the degree to which something belongs to a vague category. Probability measures how likely a definite statement is to be true. Saying a day is 0.7 warm is not the same as saying there is a 70% chance that it is warm.

An expert system encodes specialist knowledge as rules in a knowledge base and uses an inference engine to apply them, often with an explanation facility. It is transparent and auditable, but brittle outside its domain and costly to maintain as knowledge changes.

Forward chaining starts from known facts and applies rules to derive new ones until the goal appears, suiting data-driven problems. Backward chaining starts from a hypothesis and works back to find supporting facts, suiting diagnosis where you test a small number of candidates.

A neural network maps inputs to outputs through layers of weighted connections, learning the weights from examples by propagating error backwards. It handles patterns that are hard to express as rules, but its reasoning is difficult to inspect or explain.

A genetic algorithm searches by evolving a population of candidate solutions through selection, crossover and mutation, guided by a fitness function. It suits rough optimisation landscapes where gradients are unavailable, though it gives no guarantee of finding the global optimum.

Yes. A one-to-one tutor can explain agent types, work through search traces such as A*, cover logic, fuzzy systems and neural approaches, and check your reasoning. You complete your own assessed work in line with your course rules. Lessons are online.