An agent can improve its performance by

Concept:

Agent: An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through actuators. Example: human agents, robotic agents etc.

Agent is also equal to architecture and program combination.

Explanation:

Factors that are considered in agents are its performance measure, environment, actuators, sensors.

• Performance: safe, fast, legal, maximize profits.
• Environment: Roads, pedestrians, customers
• Actuators: steering wheel, accelerator, brake.
• Sensors: Cameras, speedometer, GPS, keyboard.

Environment types: fully observable, deterministic, static, dynamic, single agent, semi dynamic.

Agents observes through sensor and directs activity towards achieving goals. Agents improves its performance by learning to achieve its goals. A reflex machine is an example of an intelligent agent. AI agent must have ability to perceive the environment.