Episode 10: Cognitive Agents and the Future of Autonomy
Episode 10: Cognitive Agents and the Future of Autonomy Imagine you are in an autonomous car. Suddenly, an unavoidable situation arises: a pedestrian crosses out of place and, at the same time, another car invades your lane. The car must decide what to do. It is not a simple question of braking or accelerating, but […]
Episode 9: Multiagent Systems – When Agents Cooperate
Episode 9: Multiagent Systems – When Agents Cooperate Imagine a flock of birds in flight. There is no leader telling them what to do, but they all seem to coordinate perfectly: they turn together, accelerate at the same time and avoid colliding with each other. Each bird follows simple rules, but the collective result is […]
Episode 8: Multimodal agents and the mind-body
Episode 8: Multimodal agents and the mind-body Imagine you are at home and ask your virtual assistant to recommend a recipe. Not only does it understand your voice, but it also uses the camera to recognize what ingredients you have in the refrigerator and, incidentally, detects that you are a little tired from the tone […]
Episode 7: Conversational Agents – Beyond Chatbots
Episode 7: Conversational Agents – Beyond Chatbots You’ve probably talked to a chatbot on a bank or airline website at some point. You asked a simple question and got a canned response: “For flight inquiries, press 1.” Useful in basic terms, but very limited, and you needed something more complex. At times like that, you […]
Episode 6: Agents Who Learn
Episode 6: Agents Who Learn Introduction to Reinforcement Learning You probably remember the first time you tried riding a bike. You got on, rode a few meters, and ended up on the ground. You tried again, corrected your balance, managed to pedal a little further… until one day you discovered you could stay upright without […]
Episode 5: Reactive and Hybrid Agents
Episode 5: Reactive and Hybrid Agents Imagine a robot vacuum cleaner. It goes around your house, turns as soon as it detects a wall, stops if it sees a void in the staircase and resumes its path without stopping to think too much. That is the perfect example of a reactive agent: it senses something […]
Episode 4: Deliberative agents – planning and deciding
Episode 4: Deliberative agents – planning and deciding What if an agent could anticipate the future before acting? This is the world of deliberative agents, the true strategic minds of artificial intelligence. What is a deliberative agent? A deliberative agent not only perceives and acts: Think before you act. Simulates different possible paths. Choose the […]
Episode 3: The Agent’s Mind – Rules, Logic, and Learning
Episode 3: The Agent’s Mind – Rules, Logic, and Learning We already know that an AI agent perceives its environment and acts on it… the big question is: how does it decide what to do? Does it follow a manual, improvise, or learn as it goes? To answer that, we have to get inside […]
Episode 2: Sensors, perceptions, and environments
Episode 2: Sensors, perceptions, and environments Imagine you are a secret agent. But not just any secret agent: a secret agent who must infiltrate a building… blindly. No map, no flashlight, no sensors. Impossible, right? Well, for an AI agent, it’s just as critical: without perception, no decision is possible. And then… How does an […]
Episode 1: What is an AI agent?
Episode 1: What is an AI agent? Imagine waking up in the not-too-distant future. Your coffee maker turned itself on because it detected that you opened your eyes. The coffee maker notified your home assistant that you like strong coffee on Mondays, and your Roomba started cleaning because it knows that you always have visitors […]