Part 2: Intelligent Agents Artificial Intelligence

An over-used, over-loaded, and misused term.  Anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through its effectors to maximize progress towards its goals.  PAGE (Percepts, Actions, Goals, Environment)  Task-specific & specialized: well-defined goals and environment  The notion of an agent is meant to be a tool for analyzing systems, not an absolute characterization that divides the world into agents and non-agents...