6.034 Artificial Intelligence - Recitations, fall 2004 online slides on learning
	Common Definitions Webster: To gain knowledge or understanding of or skill in by study, instruction or experience; memorize; to acquire knowledge or skill in a behavioral tendency; discovery, to obtain knowledge of for the first time Simon: Any process by which a system improves its performance So far we have programmed knowledge into the agent (expert system rules, probabilities, database facts and rules, search space representations), but a fully autonomous agent should acquire this knowledge on its own. Machine Learning will make this possible