Artificial Intelligence Agents quiz

More questions about Artificial Intelligence Agents

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1. 1 Easy

   What do AI researchers call everything outside an agent it perceives?

   Answer: Environment

   Why: Chess is fully observable, but poker hides opponents' cards, so agents must plan with incomplete information.

2. 2 Medium

   What caused the 2010 "Flash Crash" that erased one trillion dollars?

   Answer: High-frequency trading agents

   Why: One automated sell order worth 4.1 billion dollars lit the fuse, then trading bots passed the same contracts back and forth within seconds.

3. 3 Hard

   In agent architecture, what does the D in BDI represent?

   Answer: Desires

   Why: Philosopher Michael Bratman set out the idea in 1987; SRI's Procedural Reasoning System popularised it in software, notably for Space Shuttle fault detection.

4. 4 Easy

   What is an agent that acts to achieve the best outcome?

   Answer: Rational agent

   Why: Russell and Norvig stress that rationality is not perfection: it maximizes the expected result, so a sound choice can still end badly through bad luck.

5. 5 Medium

   Which agent type considers future states to reach a target?

   Answer: Goal-based agent

   Why: In Russell and Norvig's textbook this is the design that asks what will happen if I do this, which is why search and planning belong to it.

6. 6 Hard

   How do LLM agents interact with external software or APIs?

   Answer: Tool use

   Why: Anthropic released the open Model Context Protocol on 25 November 2024 so agents could reach outside systems without custom integrations.