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[edit] Comments merged from Agent Environment

[edit] Merge

Consider merging Intelligent agents into this page. It focuses on software "bots," for the most part, so the layout of this article will need reworked to properly incorporate it. --Schultz.Ryan 03:28, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

definitely merge this article into intelligent agents and move to intelligent agent -- the term "artificial intelligence agent" was made up by User:Melody on 10 august 2003, while trying to come to terms with this text from agent: "Agents generally --and including some software agents-- have the ability to learn and to reason, logically or otherwise. They may discover facts and rules about the world or about others and may assess and argue these truths and may alter their ontology". The term is used nowhere in academia, but has spread thru the GFDL corpus (wikipedia mirrors) -- 70.29.131.204 03:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

re bots: they're all bots; but in fact, the text could be properly divided into sections for learning agents and non-learning ones. Also, as we approach the technological singularity we learn how to learn -- ie: meta-learning, (which in humans is temporal lobe based ithink) and is a hallmark of sentience. -- 70.29.131.204 04:20, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone have any links to people who are doing research in this field?? If so they should be posted also.

[edit] Page move

I suggest that this article be edited in any of the following ways:

See intelligent agent --moxon 09:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I would keep it

I suggest keeping this article separate from intelligent agent. Typically, in agents research, these things are thought separatelly. The features of artificial environemtns mentioned here are equally as important as features as agents, in fact, their are accepted generally as a de facto definitions of properties of artificial environemnts. --User:Cyril2 14:33, 08 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "agents" / merge

re merge: Due to the extensive rework required for the suggested merger of the mentioned atricles, I took the libirty to create this article from scratch. As stated in their discussions artificial intelligence agent focuses on "agent environments" and intelligent agents on bot-type software agents. I suggest that these articles be renamed/merged as such. I do however invite the authors of those articles to contribute to this new article where appropriate. Please comment. --moxon 10:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

In my experience there are three communities who claim the word "agent":

I'm not sure this article is going to go anywhere if it doesn't clearly engage with at least one of those communities. Though there are some other people who use agent as you do, notably Russel & Norvig. That is, sort of as a generic expression for a strong AI system with no particular attachment to a research community.--81.6.234.170 21:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Pls. see my comment there. --Boris 23:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different types of intelligent agents not related

If it is interactive and adaptive, IMO it is an IA --moxon 12:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

The references on this page need a serious review! The first reference (Kasavbov) does not contain any of the information stated on the page. The relevant information might be somewhere else in the journal but it is not in the Introduction (which is referenced). Further there are hyperlinks to references 3 and 4 that take you nowhere since references 3 and 4 don´t exist. --Shadowselfs 07:34, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This should be divided into two articles

There should be (at least) two separed articles:"Intelligent agent" and "Intelligent agent(computer science)" Current article is confusing and if no-one objects I will create the second article and move half of the text there.82.130.8.142 (talk) 19:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree. I think this article should be a disambiguation page, and I think there should be two articles, should be called:

intelligent software agent which describes software agents with (some) intelligence. intelligent agent paradigm, which defines artificial intelligence research as the study of intelligent agents. It's primary reference should an AI textbook like Norvig and Russell. It should use material from this article, and should subsume the article rational agent as well. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 07:09, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Here's my new idea. Let this article be about intelligent agents or rational agents as defined by Russell & Norvig (merging in agent environment). Cover "intelligent software agents" in software agent. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Y Done ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 16:41, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge complete

I am hoping to merge rational agent, intelligent agent and agent environment into a single article, since they all seem to be based on chapter 2 of Russell, Stuart J.; Norvig, Peter (2003), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-790395-2, http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ .

This would create a nice medium-sized article on a single topic from a major source. (So we can be sure how the topic is defined, that it is notable, and that the material is both relevant and verified). Other related ideas (such as software agents with artificial intelligence, or agent (economics) can be covered in other articles, and the intro of intelligent agent will guide you there.

It seems this merge has a long history. Hopefully this will sort it out. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 17:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

As for Rational agent, see my notes at Talk:Rational agent ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 17:43, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Y Done ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 16:41, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Intelligent agents should not be part (in the Scope of?) of Robotics

The research on Intelligent Agents is not a subpart of robotics, althought some work of robotic is inspired by the work on Intelligent Agents. Actually, research on Intelligent Agents can be rather be considered as a sub-part of the research conducted on Software agents.

Exemple of group conducting research in this area:

Other terms to be added:

Other reference:

Nabeth (talk) 15:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)