The article describes these agents as "negotiation ninjas" based on "a series of simple rules - known as heuristics." That's far from artificial intelligence. N

The article describes these agents as "negotiation ninjas" based on "a series of simple rules - known as heuristics." That's far from artificial intelligence. Nothing in the article suggests that the agents do any kind of learning. The problem with heuristics is that the best ones make very specific assumptions, so they usually don't scale to new problem domains, and don't adapt to changing market conditions.