INTELLIGENT AGENTS In which we discuss what an intelligent agent does, how it is related to its environment, how it is evaluated, and how we might go about building one. 2.1 INTRODUCTION An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through effectors. A human agent has eyes, ears, and other organs for sensors, and hands, legs, mouth, and other body parts for effectors. A robotic agent substitutes cameras and infrared
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take a very intelligent human to create artificial life that could make its own decisions and function like a human. With the help of Hollywood, when we think of artificial intelligence, we tend to think of immense robots that walk, talk, appear human, and also make friends with people such as a human would do. We need to examine the meaning of the word artificial intelligence. All textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system
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Define software agents.Describe how software agents cam help people find specific information quickly Software agents represent an evolutionary step beyond conventional computer programs. Software agents can activate and run themselves, not requiring input from or interaction with a human user. Software agents can also initiate, oversee, and terminate other programs or agents including applications and online intelligent agents. Define portal.Distinguish corporate portals from information portals
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1.1 (a) intelligence – means to have the knowledge to learn and understand different situations. (b) artificial intelligence – the ability of a computer or robot to act like a human and make decisions based on pre-defined rules. (c) agent – is the entity that is doing the actions, it can interact with the environment, change it, and learn from it. (d) rationality – is the ability of doing the right thing based on what it already knows or has learned from the environment. (e) logical
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from a hot stove) rational? Can a simple reflex agent be rational? Is it possible to behave rationally in an unobservable environment? What is the relationship between learning and rationality? Would evolution tend to result in systems that act rationally? What goals would such systems be designed to achieve? Are human beings rational agents (in the sense of maximizing expected utility)? If not, does it mean that the "rational agent" framework cannot be the right one for AI?
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the data into the algorithms, which results in a solution and consequent action.” Garegnani, J. (2010, December 15) Artificial Software is good for Aerospace because it gives us the capabilities to do more traveling into space than ever before. Intelligent System (IS) applications have gained popularity among aerospace professionals in the last decade due to the ease with which several of the IS tools can be
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NY Times Weekly Business Report Conventional wisdom suggests that technology can only benefit its recipients, and not harm them in any way. Technological advances seek to improve the efficiency of human work production so that more can be done with less time. For example, the invention of the calculator improved the speed of problem solving in mathematics. Technology makes everyday life less complicated and more convenient, for those who have access to said technology. The introduction of
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Contrasting to Document 2, by Gary Marcus from Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?, that believes Artificial Intelligence is a waste of time, Document 1, by Dr. Alex Rogers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) Means More Than Just Neat Gadgets, believes that Artificial Intelligence is important to the future as it can help make the Earth greener by allowing humans to discover energy waste in their homes and prevent it. Overall, Document 1 is slightly stronger with its argument because of the author’s
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Bostorm, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, Predicted a machine programmed to make as many paper clips as possible, he called “the paper-clip maximizer”. He envisions that if this machine ever became incredibly intelligent, it would then decide to create new, more efficient paper-clip-manufacturing machines—until it had converted essentially everything into paper clips! (Bostorm, 2004) A risk described by critics as an exaggerating scenario and is “perhaps impossible”
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mankind all together. An example of artificial technology diminishing our future in stories would be in “The Pedestrian” and “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. “The Pedestrian” shows the government diminished the entire police force to only one artificial intelligent police car which could not react rationally to Leonard Mead which was simply walking. “The Veldt” also glorifies the downsides of artificial intelligence. It does this by showing how a “nursery” can replace neglectful parents of the children. “The
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