Intelligent Agents

An intelligent agent in a world carries a model of the world in its ‘head’. The model maybe an abstraction. A self-aware agent would model itself in the world model.

Deeper awareness may require that the agent represents (be aware of itself modelling the world.

What is Intelligence?

Remember the past. Learn from it.

• Memory and Experience - Case-based reasoning
• Learn a model - Machine Learning
• Recognise faces, objects and patterns - Deep Neural Networks

Understand the present. Be aware of the world around you.

• Create a model of the world - knowledge representation
• Make inferences from what you know - logic and reasoning

Imagine the future. Work towards your goal.

• Trial and Error - heuristic search
• Goals, plans and actions - automated planning

Characteristics

Persistent

it is there all the time

Autonomous