Peter Norvig

(14 articles)
Task Environment
1956

Task Environment

Setting or context within which an intelligent agent operates and attempts to achieve its objectives.

Generality: 760

Search Optimization
1956

Search Optimization

Process of enhancing algorithms' ability to efficiently search for the most optimal solution in a potentially vast solution space.

Generality: 830

Heuristic Search Techniques
1959

Heuristic Search Techniques

Methods used in AI to find solutions or make decisions more efficiently by using rules of thumb or informed guesses to guide the search process.

Generality: 878

QA (Question Answering)
1960

QA
Question Answering

Field of natural language processing focused on building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in a natural language.

Generality: 830

Agent
1963

Agent

System capable of perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment to achieve specific goals.

Generality: 790

Hierarchical Planning
1970

Hierarchical Planning

Approach to solving complex problems by breaking them down into more manageable sub-problems, organizing these into a hierarchy.

Generality: 845

Statistical AI
1980

Statistical AI

Utilizes statistical methods to analyze data and make probabilistic inferences, aimed at emulating aspects of human intelligence through quantitative models.

Generality: 890

Ngram
1980

Ngram

Contiguous sequence of N items from a given sample of text or speech.

Generality: 800

Program Induction
1980

Program Induction

A process in AI where computers generate, or 'induce', programs based on provided data and specific output criteria.

Generality: 785

Agent-to-Agent Interaction
1990

Agent-to-Agent Interaction

Communication and cooperation between autonomous agents within a multi-agent system to achieve individual or collective goals.

Generality: 735

Similarity Computation
1990

Similarity Computation

A mathematical process to quantify the likeness between data objects, often used in AI to enhance pattern recognition and data clustering.

Generality: 675

HITL (Human-in-the-Loop)
2015

HITL
Human-in-the-Loop

Integration of human judgment into AI systems to improve or guide the decision-making process.

Generality: 665

Autonomous Reasoning
2018

Autonomous Reasoning

Capacity of AI systems to make independent decisions or draw conclusions based on logic or data without human intervention.

Generality: 850

Agentic AI Systems
2022

Agentic AI Systems

Advanced AI capable of making decisions and taking actions autonomously to achieve specific goals, embodying characteristics of agency and decision-making usually associated with humans or animals.

Generality: 775