 An intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which <unk> its chances of success . By this definition , simple programs that solve specific problems are " intelligent agents " , as are human beings and organizations of human beings , such as firms . The intelligent agent paradigm defines AI research as " the study of intelligent agents " . This is a <unk> of some earlier definitions of AI : it goes beyond studying human intelligence ; it studies all kinds of intelligence . 
