embodied

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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An embodied agent has some form of visible or tangible representation, either digital such as a graphical face, or physical such as a robot. While some agents are invisible, apparent only due to their actions on the world, embodied agents are apparent as entities in theor own right and may often be directly addressed.

Used on Chap. 16: page 370; Chap. 19: pages 458, 467; Chap. 23: page 561

Also known as embodiment, embodied, embodied agents

EAGER represented as a cat icon -- an early example of an embodied software agent (image from "EAGER: Programming Repetitive Tasks by Example" Allen Cypher (1991)},