Equation 10 · From Scripted Bots to Autonomous Agents: A History of AI Agent Architecture
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That equation is the real content of the RL-era architecture, not decoration: the agent’s decision rule is now a function fit incrementally from its own experience, and the “plan” a STRIPS operator library encoded explicitly is replaced by whatever policy falls out of maximizing Q .
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- [3] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition ↗
- [4] Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning ↗
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