Talk:Intelligent agent
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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)
[edit] "agents" / merge
In my experience there are three communities who claim the word "agent":
- the animat community, who use the word to refer to either robots or animals (though they sometimes will accept VR agents these days)
- the agent-based modelling people, who are mostly social scientists and use fairly trivial agents to do fairly cool research.
- the software agent people, who are basically logicians and software engineers, but do use (neat) AI and are also the most organized.
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)
