Terry Shockley
Intelligent Agent Review Week 5
October 11, 2007
An 'agent' is something that acts in an environment --- such as a mobile robot, a web crawler, an automated medical diagnosis system, or an autonomous character in a video game. An 'intelligent' agent is an agent that acts appropriately in order to satisfy its goals. That is, the agent must perceive its environment, decide what action to perform, and then carry out the action, (AAAI, 2007).
The first IA reviewed was the assistant bot, Passlogix V-go, Single Sign On software.
Category: Assistant Bot
Product Name: Passlogix
URL and Review: http://www.passlogix.com/products/
This bot helps out the consumer with remembering passwords and authenticating website access. Enterprise users can enjoy the benefits of single sign-on to all of their applications, whether they are connected to the corporate network, traveling away from the office, roaming between computers or working at a shared workstation, (Passlogix, 2007).
The second IA reviewed was the Talking Translator Pro 1.1. This IA can assist with language translation. Talking Translator Pro is a small and easy to use 4 in 1 language utility which can translate text between 7 languages, (BotSpot, 2007).
Category: Personal Assistant
Product Name: Talking Translator Pro 1.1
URL and Review:
http://www.botspot.com/Intelligent_Agent/2171.html
This IA is pretty intelligent in that it can also help with word meanings.
Finally, the third IA reviewed was the Desktop Plant. This IA actually lets you grow plants on your desktop. The consumer must water, feed, and provide the necessary overall care for these plants.
Category: Virtual Plant
Product Name: Desktop Plant
URL and Review:
http://www.desksoft.com/DesktopPlant.htm
This IA is pretty realistic or as much as you can in the virtual world.
AAAI, (2007). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Agents. Retrieved September 23, 2007 from http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/agents.html
BotSpot, (2007). Talking Translator Pro 1.1. Retrieved October 11, 2007 from
http://www.botspot.com/Intelligent_Agent/2171.html
Passlogix, (2007). Products and features. Retrieved October 11, 2007 from
http://www.passlogix.com/products/v-go_sso/overview.asp
