THE ARCHITECTURE OF INTELLIGENCE
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beliefstate.si
Knowledge under uncertainty.
An agent acts without seeing everything.
THIS NAMEbeliefstate.si
CONNECTED / 01modelstate.si↗CONNECTED / 02goalstate.si↗CONNECTED / 03veridical.si↗04 / BELIEFSTATESELECT A CONNECTION TO MOVE THROUGH THE ATLASA belief state represents what an agent currently takes to be possible or likely about its environment.
Where the idea appears
In partially observable decision problems, a belief state summarizes uncertainty about the underlying state.
Why it connects
It connects incomplete observations to decisions made before the world is fully known.
THE QUESTION IT OPENSHow should a system act when it does not know?
PLACE IN THE ATLASState
What a system represents, believes, and aims toward.
This is a conceptual collection. The page does not describe a finished product or verified technical capability.FOLLOW THE THREAD / 02Connected
Connected
by meaning.
Each connection opens a different way to continue through the architecture.