COMPUTER SCIENCE

Rational agent approaches Artificial intelligence is defined as the study of a relational agent. A rational agent could be anything that makes decisions like a person, firm, machine, or software. It acts with the best outcome percept. (agents perceptual inputs at a given instance) An AI system is composed of an agent and its environment. The environment may contain other agents. An agent is anything that can be viewed as : Perceiving its environment through sensors and Acting upon that environment through actuators. Note Every agent can perceive its own actions(but not always the effects) It will run in cycles of perceiving, thinking, and acting. Take humans for eg, we perceive our environment through our five senses (sensors), we think about it, and then act using our body parts (actuators). Similarly, robotic agents perceive the environment through sensors that we provide them it can the camera, microphones, infrared detectors. They do some computing(thinking) and...