2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS
In this chapter, we explore AI in terms of agents and robotics. While doing so, we should remind ourselves of the definition of human intelligence discussed in Section 1.1, from the Encyclopedia Britannica:8
Human intelligence: mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment.
It is really helpful to use the AI agent as the schematic of the artificial human, and it has a simple analogy in that it is similar to a robot. Unfortunately, this simple analogy has not been used by roboticists. Their focus hasn’t been human intelligence or the framework for the academic ...
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