Here are concise notes on **AI Agents** to help you understand the key concepts quickly:
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### 🧠 **AI Agents – Overview**
An **AI agent** is an autonomous entity that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and
performs actions to achieve speci c goals.
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### 🧩 **Components of an AI Agent**
1. **Perception** – Gathers data from the environment via sensors or input.
2. **Agent Function** – Maps percepts (inputs) to actions.
3. **Actuators** – Execute actions in the environment.
4. **Environment** – The external world in which the agent operates.
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### 🧭 **Types of AI Agents**
1. **Simple Re ex Agents**
- Act only on current perception.
- No memory or learning.
- Example: Thermostat.
2. **Model-Based Re ex Agents**
- Maintain internal state (model of the world).
- Handle partially observable environments.
3. **Goal-Based Agents**
- Use goals to decide actions.
- Evaluate future states.
4. **Utility-Based Agents**
- Use a utility function to make decisions.
- Choose action with the highest expected utility.
5. **Learning Agents**
- Learn and improve from experience.
- Have performance element, learning element, and critic.
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### 🌐 **Agent Environments**
Classi ed based on:
- **Observable vs. Partially Observable**
- **Deterministic vs. Stochastic**
- **Episodic vs. Sequential**
- **Static vs. Dynamic**
- **Discrete vs. Continuous**
- **Single-agent vs. Multi-agent**
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### 📈 **Applications of AI Agents**
- Virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Alexa)
- Self-driving cars
- Game AI (e.g., NPCs)
- Robotic process automation
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- Chatbots
- Smart home devices
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### ⚙ **Properties of Rational Agents**
- **Rationality**: Doing the right thing to maximize performance measure.
- **Autonomy**: Ability to learn and adapt with minimal human input.
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If you want more details on a speci c type of agent, environment, or example use case, let me
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