Ch4 Notes

There are several problems with the “base model” General Problem Solver:

• Clobbered goal: achieving one goal causes another goal to be lost.
• Leaping before you look: committing to a “strategy” that is impossible to finish (and missing another method).
• Infinite loop: trying to find a way to achieve a goal causes you to need that same goal, again and again.

You should be able to give examples of goals and operations that would give rise to each of these problems with a “naive solver”.