DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CS2351 ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE 2-MARK
QUESTIONS

PREPARED BY
S.ATHIRAYAN ME., AP/CSE

CS2351 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

S.ATHIRAYAN AP/CSE

SYLLABUS
CS2351

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE L

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UNIT I

PROBLEM SOLVING
9 Introduction Agents Problem formulation
uninformed search strategies heuristics
Informed search strategies constraint satisfaction
UNIT II

LOGICAL REASONING
9 Logical agents propositional logic inferences
first-order logic inferences in first order logic forward chaining backward chaining
unification resolution
UNIT III

PLANNING
9 Planning with state-space search partial-order
planning planning graphs planning
and acting in the real world
UNIT IV

UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING

9 Uncertainty review of probability - probabilistic Reasoning
Bayesian networks inferences in Bayesian networks Temporal models Hidden
Markov models
UNIT V

LEARNING
9 Learning from observation - Inductive learning
Decision trees Explanation based learning Statistical Learning methods Reinforcement Learning
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:
1. S. Russel and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach,
Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
REFERENCES:
1. David Poole, Alan Mackworth, Randy Goebel, Computational Intelligence : a
logical approach, Oxford University Press, 2004.
2. G. Luger, Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for complex
problem solving, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.
3. J. Nilsson, Artificial Intelligence: A new Synthesis, Elsevier Publishers, 1998.

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TWO MARKS
UNIT 1: PROBLEM SOLVING
1. What is artificial intelligence?
The exciting new effort to make computers think machines with minds in the
full and literal sense. Artificial intelligence systemizes and automates intellectual tasks and is
therefore potentially relevant to any sphere of human intellectual activities.
2. List down the characteristics of intelligent agent.
Intelligent Agents are autonomous because they function without requiring that the
Console or Management Server be running.
An Agent that services a database can run when the database is down, allowing the Agent
to start up or shut down the database.
The Intelligent Agents can independently perform administrative job tasks at any
time, without active participation by the administrator.
Similarly, the Agents can autonomously detect and react to events, allowing them to
monitor the system and execute a fixit job to correct problems without the intervention of
the administrator.
3. What do you mean by local maxima with respect to search technique?
The golden section search is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a
strictly unimodal function by successively narrowing the range of values inside which the
extremum is known to exist. The technique derives its name from the fact that the algorithm
maintains the function values for triples of points whose distances form a golden ratio. The
algorithm is the limit of Fibonacci search (also described below) for a large number of function
evaluations.
4. Define Turing test.
The Turing test proposed by Alan Turing was designed to provide a satisfactory operational
definition of intelligence. Turing defined intelligent behavior as the ability to achieve humanlevel performance in all cognitive tasks, sufficient to fool an interrogator.
5. List the capabilities that a computer should possess for conducting a Turing Test?
The capabilities that a computer should possess for conducting a Turing Test are,
Natural Language Processing;
Knowledge Representation;
Automated Reasoning;
Machine Language.
6. Define an agent.
An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through Sensors and
acting upon the environment through effectors.

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