Autonomous agent explained

An autonomous agent is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can perform complex tasks independently.^[1]

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 ^[2]

See also

• Actor model
• Ambient intelligence
• AutoGPT
• Autonomous agency theory
• Chatbot
• Embodied agent
• Intelligent agent
• Intelligent control
• Multi-agent system
• Software agent

External links

• Web site: Autonomous Robot Behaviors. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203130820/http://www.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/autonomousbehaviors/index.shtml. 3 December 2013.
• Requirements for materializing Autonomous Agents
• Book: Sun, Ron . Ron Sun

. Ron Sun . Duality of the Mind: A Bottom-up Approach Toward Cognition . Lawrence Erlbaum . September 1, 2001 . New Jersey . 304 . 978-0-585-39404-6 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Autonomous Agent . November 6, 2024 . Techopedia.
2. Lee. Jae-Gil. Summer 2015. Can Autonomous Vehicles Be Safe and Trustworthy? Effects of Appearance and Autonomy of Unmanned Driving Systems. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 31. 10. 682–691. 10.1080/10447318.2015.1070547. 36605301 .