Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents,  2nd Edition

The third edition of Artificial Intelligence: foundations of computational agents, Cambridge University Press, 2023 is now available (including full text).

Chapter 12 Learning to Act


Since in action it frequently happens that no delay is permissible, it is very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to act according to what is most probable.

Descartes [1637], Part III