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In intelligence and artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an agent acting in anintelligent manner. It perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously in order to achieve goals, and may improve its performance with learning or acquiring knowledge. An intelligent agent may be simple or complex: A thermostat or other control system is considered an example of an intelligent agent, as is a human being, as is any system that meets the definition, such as a firm, a state), or a biome.[1]

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