Intelligent Agent in AI

An Intelligent Agent is a software entity that senses its environment and then carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user with some amount of autonomy and to do so, it employs some knowledge or representation of the end-users goal.

Characteristics of Intelligent Agent

1. They are autonomous, so they can work on their own.
2. They are persistent over a prolonged time.
3. They are adaptive, so they can adjust to changes.
4. They can learn.

Applications of Intelligent Agent

1. Intelligent Agent is used to access and navigate information using different search engines.
2. Intelligent Agent helps in decision-making by the knowledge workers.
3. Intelligent Agent performs the time-consuming and sends the result-sets back to the user in the distributed environments.
4. Intelligent Agents can be used to assist managers to do their job. Some management-oriented tasks that an agent can do are – advising, browse, distribute, enlist, explain, filter, guide, match, query, search,, etc.