Please read this before class.
Agents can be of many different types, including human agents, robotic agents, and software agents.
We will talk about what constitutes intelligence in such agents. The percept sequence is the sequence of percepts that the agent has witnessed till a given point in time, and shows the perceptual history presented before the agent. Presumably, the percept sequence determines what the ideal response of the agent should be. Given the constraints of possibly incomplete knowledge of the environment, and a limited set of actions allowed, a rational agent carries out an action in response to a particular percept sequence such that its performance is the best against the performance criteria. The transform from a percept sequence to the ideal response is called the mapping .