Right now I am involved in a couple of online classes to finish up my masters at TC and am exploring the various intelligent systems concepts and how they might be applicable to my own goals. To this end, I’d like to explore the creation of an educational system which provides both instruction and evaluation on remediation of standardized topic areas. This self-sustaining system would have enough prior knowledge to support various instructional requirements while dynamically adapting to the needs of each user. This, in turn, requires that each system possess an expansive background on a variety of topic areas and have the ability to modify expectations based on pre-defined outcomes provided by the user. In AI terms, the agent would develop a percept sequence (”the complete history of everything the agent has ever perceived”) for the student’s progress through information gathering. It’s agentic function would determine the behaviors as they are mapped to a particular action. Conversely, the system would learn which common traits are exhibited by its users and (hopefully using some empirical data such as demographic and gender) modify its outcome to best suit the user to complement the end goal.
-Cameron