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What is the environment of an agent?

  • A.The physical room or building in which the agent is placed
  • B.The software platform on which the agent's own program executes
  • C.The set of other agents with which it must interact
  • D.Everything outside the agent that it perceives and acts upon

Answer: D

The environment is whatever the agent's percepts come from and its actions affect, which for a software agent may be a file system and a network rather than any physical space. Rooms, platforms and other agents are particular kinds of environment or parts of one. Drawing the boundary between agent and environment is a modelling choice, and drawing it in a different place changes what counts as a percept and what counts as internal state.

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