Agent Based Modeling's Role in Understanding Complexity

Posted by glen ep ropella on Mar 12, 2008; 10:55pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Agent-Based-Modeling-s-Role-in-Understanding-Complexity-tp525934p525939.html

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Ken Lloyd wrote:
> I distinguish between agents that are intrinsically part of a system,
> and that exhibit intelligence - either natural human intelligence or
> weak artificial intelligence. [...] Compare this to [...] what I call
> automata - as deterministic or probabilistic, rules based entities
> that act within a system. [...]

What do you claim is the difference between a weak artificial
intelligence algorithm and a rules-based algorithm?

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