Article,
Automatic Generation of Intelligent Agent Programs
IEEE Expert, 12 (1): 3--4 (January 1997)
Abstract
One cause for excitement about agent oriented AI is
the belief that it is easier to write programs for many
narrow, autonomous systems than for fewer, broader,
user-driven systems. A related cause for excitement is
the primary message of these comments: it is also
easier to automatically generate agent programs. The
artificial life, machine learning, and automatic
programming literature already describes many
experiments in which systems with agent-like properties
have been automatically generated. Although most of the
previously generated systems have been too simple to
perform helpful tasks for actual users, recent advances
suggest that useful intelligent agents will soon be
within reach of these techniques. The paper focuses on
one particular technology, genetic programming, but
related points should apply to other automatic
programming technologies
