This is discussed in the introductory chapter of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"[1]. There are four schools of thought about building intelligent a

This is discussed in the introductory chapter of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"[1]. There are four schools of thought about building intelligent agents: 1. Thinking Rationally: Use logic 2. Thinking Humanly: Solve problems like humans would 3. Acting Rationally: Attempt to maximize performance 4. Acting Humanly: Turing test I agree with their conclusion that rational agents are what we should design. Humans after all try to be rational agents and we still fail to be rational a lot of the time. [1]: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/