Essential Components of Intelligent Agents
In this chapter, we’ll dive into the essential components that make up the core of intelligent agents. Just as the human body has a skeleton that provides structure and support, intelligent agents have certain fundamental elements that allow them to adapt, act independently, and pursue goals in complex environments.
We’ll look at the important pieces that bring agents to life – how they represent and store knowledge, the reasoning processes that guide their decision-making, the algorithms that help them learn and grow, and the mechanisms for choosing the right actions to take. You’ll also see how the exciting field of generative AI can supercharge these components, giving agents more powerful abilities to understand their surroundings, learn from experiences, and interact meaningfully with the world around them.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Knowledge representation...
