Lecture 2: Problem Solving and Search – Machine Learning for Engineers

This video is part of the "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Engineers" course offered at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). This course introduces ML/AI theory and applications that are relevant to engineering, with a focus on practical machine learning for civil engineering. This lecture aims to detail how to formalize a given AI problem into a tree (state diagram) that can be searched by an AI algorithm. We define the concepts of problem goal, agent, state, and action.