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 want to talk to a customer service […]
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 falling. No one gave you […]
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 and responds immediately. Its behavior resembles […]
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 plan that best brings you closer to your […]
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 the head, or rather, the “mind,” of an agent. Types […]
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 AI agent perceive the world? What […]
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 on that day. Everything seems to flow […]
Episode 7: Creative Machines. Did we get out of hand?
Can an AI write a poem that makes you cry? Paint a picture that you would hang in your home? Create a movie that leaves you thinking for days? The short answer: yes, it can.The long answer: yes, it can? but should it? We are at a strange moment in history: machines are invading territories […]
Episode 6: AI – Hero or villain in the age of sustainability?
Is artificial intelligence destroying the planet? Or can it be the tool that saves you? The discussion is open. And like everything that generates real impact, AI also generates debate. On the one hand, its training consumes enormous amounts of energy. On the other hand, its applications are already helping to optimize processes, reduce emissions […]
Episode 5: Making the complicated simple – Understand the AI without the headaches!
Machine what? Neural networks? Deep learning? Generative models? And why does it all sound like a Nolan movie with a script by Alan Turing? If artificial intelligence sounds like indecipherable jargon with graphics full of little arrows, data structures and names that sound like spells (“bidirectional auto-regressive transformer”), breathe easy: you don’t need to be […]