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Even if you are a limited artificial intelligence agent, you have probably noticed that this issue of
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is devoted to the special topic of Agents. Anyone knowledgeable about the history of AI cannot help but recognize that yet another neat little technology is being hyped nearly to death, and anyone knowledgeable about "agents" can not help but recognize that, as an artificial intelligence technology, there is typically very little actual intelligence involved. In some sense, Agents can be defined as small scale AI that works. This was particularly evident at the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents-97) in Marina Del Rey this past February. There is a lot of activity and real research going on related to Agents that is fascinating and occasionally entertaining. Agents-97 attendees certainly noticed the most popular presentations were those given by or relating to the entertainment industry.
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