By Rolf Pfeifer; Christian Scheier

"Researchers now agree that intelligence constantly manifests itself in habit - therefore it's habit that we needs to comprehend. an exhilarating new box has grown round the research of behavior-based intelligence, sometimes called embodied cognitive technological know-how, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI."" "Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier offer a scientific creation to this new mind set approximately intelligence and computers. Read more...

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Chapter 1 12 complexities involved. By contrast, science considers understand­ ing perception one of the most important research issues. Recog­ nizing complex objects in our environment, making out a face in a crowd are amazing abilities to a scientist trying to explain them. Medical doctors, experienced diagnosticians, can sometimes find out what's wrong with a person simply by looking at him. Such perceptual competences are sometimes seen as intelligence. Motor abilities, on the other hand, especially basic ones like walking, are usually thought to require no intelligence.

Autonomous agents, whether robotic or computational, in order to be built, must be designed. Although we normally think about design as an activity for engineers, the design perspective has proven extremely fruitful in cognitive science for studying natural intelligence. , Dawkins 1988), perhaps a blind one, but nevertheless an extremely effective one: Natural systems have truly impressive capabilities. What we are asking is how we would design a system that behaves in a particular way that we find interesting?

Bio­ logical agents exist in nature-we don't have to build them. Of the two categories of robotic agents, research agents and industrial agents, we will primarily focus on research agents, because of our focus on cognitive science. But we do believe, and discuss later, that industrial agents have fascinating applications: This is the business of engineering. 9 industrial agents computational agents /I� simulated agents artificial life agents software agents Classification of agents. The relevant category of agents for the study of intelligence are the autonomous agents.

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