Transcription of 7 LOGICAL AGENTS
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7 LOGICALAGENTSI nwhich wedesignagentsthatcanformrepresentations oftheworld,usea pro-cessof inferenceto derivenew representationsabouttheworld, therepre-sentationofknowledgeandthereaso ningprocessesthatbringknowledgeto life ,it seems, enablesuccessfulbehaviorsthatwouldbevery hardto achieve have seenthatknowledgeofactionoutcomesenables problem-solvingagentstoperformwellincomp lex reflex ,however, ,butdoesnotknowinany usefulsensethatnopiececanbeontwo , ,thisprocesscanbequitefarremovedfromthen eedsofthemoment aswhena mathematicianprovesa theoremoranastronomercalculatestheearth s ,aphysiciandiagnosesa patient thatis,infersa diseasestatethatis notdirectlyobservable priortochoosinga ,andsomeis itsinsidethephysician s head,it ,namely, theinten-tionofthespeaker.
7 LOGICAL AGENTS In which we design agents that can form representations of the world, use a pro-cess of inference to derive new representations about the world, and use these new representations to deduce what to do. This chapter introduces knowledge-based agents. The concepts that we discuss—the repre-
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