Conclusion of Lecture 17

• You can certainly use these techniques for agents in games.
• Buckland gives a range of concrete solutions for pathfinding.
• However, search spaces give you access to a range of cutting edge AI that is likely to remain cutting edge for a long time.
• In general, the evaluation function is not well understood, and the state space is not well understood.
• This gives a lot of scope for real creativity in generating a solution for a problem.
• Similarly, the selection or development of a good search algorithm for the task at hand is an art not a science.
• The reading for this week was Buckland Chapter 8.
• The reading for next week is Buckland Chapter 9.