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What did economics contribute to artificial intelligence?

  • A.The algorithms used for searching large state spaces
  • B.Decision theory, utility and the notion of rational choice
  • C.The formal grammars used for parsing natural language
  • D.The model of the neuron as a threshold logic unit

Answer: B

Utility theory, expected value and game theory gave the field its formal account of what acting rationally under uncertainty means, which is the foundation of the rational agent view. Grammar came from linguistics, the threshold neuron from neuroscience and search from computer science and operations research. Tracing an idea to the discipline that developed it usually explains its vocabulary and its assumptions, and here it explains why agents are described as maximising something.

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