Reactive versus Deliberative Agents
What is a reactive agent and is it intelligent?
What does the question mean, anyway?
- the agent does what it’s supposed to,
- cleverly, efficiently, adaptively, ...
- the agent is effective in a wide variety of situations
- variations in the world
- variations in the task
Evaluating performance
- scoring metric (objective or value function) applied to every action the agent does, every state it moves the world into
- goals or tasks given to the agent