Autonomous agent
An autonomous agent is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can perform complex tasks independently.
Definitions
There are various definitions of autonomous agent. According to Brustoloni (1991):
According to Maes (1995):
Franklin and Graesser (1997) review different definitions and propose their definition:
They explain that:
Agent appearance
Lee et al. (2015) post safety issue from how the combination of external appearance and internal autonomous agent have impact on human reaction about autonomous vehicles. Their study explores the human-like appearance agent and high level of autonomy are strongly correlated with social presence, intelligence, safety and trustworthiness. In specific, appearance impacts most on affective trust while autonomy impacts most on both affective and cognitive domain of trust where cognitive trust is characterized by knowledge-based factors and affective trust is largely emotion driven
See also
- Actor model
- Ambient intelligence
- AutoGPT
- Autonomous agency theory
- Chatbot
- Embodied agent
- Intelligent agent
- Intelligent control
- Multi-agent system
- Software agent
References
External links
- "Autonomous Robot Behaviors". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
- Requirements for materializing Autonomous Agents
- Sun, Ron (September 1, 2001). Duality of the Mind: A Bottom-up Approach Toward Cognition. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-585-39404-6.