Equation 1 · Part 3 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Agent Architecture
Symbol a
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a is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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a is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
Strip away the branding and every one of these systems is choosing an action from a history of observations rather than from the true state of the world, because the true state is never directly available to it. That is the founding move of decision theory under partial observability: an agent’s policy must be a function of a belief built from what it has seen, not of the world…
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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.
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