AI Methods and Agent Architectures
Michael E. Miller, Christina F. Rusnock · 2024
This chapter provides an overview of AI techniques and history to aid students who are not familiar with AI to understand the basis for today’s AI techniques. This chapter is not intended to provide an overview of all AI techniques but to give students without the knowledge of AI an appreciation of the technical basis, advantages, and limitations of this technology before continuing our HAT design process. The chapter begins with an overview of the history of artificial intelligence, explaining how AI has matured over three generations, or waves, exploring the various implementations of AI techniques. The chapter then discusses distinct types of agents and AI agent architectures. To further the design of our “To-Be” system, we then construct an AOSM Responsibility-Capability Diagram to capture the capabilities required to fulfill the system’s responsibilities.