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Usability Glossary: agent


while most software is designed to respond directly to user commands, agents are pieces of software designed to act on their own. In the background, while users are working, agents work in parallel on other tasks: searching for relevant or interesting files, looking for bugs, optimizing performance, helping users solve problems by anticipating their needs.

see also

artificial intelligence
information filtering
information retrieval

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