Persuasion Glossary
Actors & Agents
7 termsMeet the key players that drive our systems. From human actors using natural language to conversational agents handling tasks like transmitting, receiving, and reasoning, this section defines the roles and responsibilities that make everything tick.
- Actors
- Classes of Human Persons or Abstract Entities that contain Conversational Agents.
- Human Persons
- Actors that use Natural Language to derive Semantic meaning.
- Conversational Agents
- Abstract sub-classes of Actors that implement one of three conversational sub-processes: Transmission, Reception, or Cognition.
- Transmitter Agents
- Conversational Agents capable of passing Information and Asserting Statements to Receiver Agents.
- Receiver Agents
- Conversational Agents capable of Perceiving Information from Transmitter Agents.
- Cognitive Agents
- Conversational Agents capable of Cognition, Reasoning, Decision-making, and Metacognition.
- Metacognitive Agents
- A subclass of Cognitive Agents distinctly capable of either Active Deliberation or Learned Intuition.