6.034 Artificial Intelligence - Recitations, fall 2004 online slides on learning

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A General Model of Learning Agents

Learning Element:
Adds knowledge, makes improvement to system
Performance Element:
Performs task, selects external actions
Critic:
Monitors results of performance, provides feedback to learning element
Problem Generator:
Actively suggests experiments, generates examples to test
Performance Standard:
Method / standard of measuring performance