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When talking about Artificial Intelligence we usually think of robots like those in Isaac Asimovs I Robot saga, beings more rational than human beings, who can live with us and perform all kinds of tasks.

Although our technology is very advanced, we have not yet reached that level.

But to think that Artificial Intelligence is a synonymous of robots is a mistake. We already have Artificial Intelligence entities, intelligent agents, who help us every day. And most of them have nothing to do with robots or live with us.

What they have in common with Asimov robots is that they are even more rational than us when they perform their specific tasks. And the two biggest differences are that they are nowhere near as complex and versatile as humans, and that most of them operate in purely virtual environments.

For now, I want you to separate the words agent and rationality, because they do not always go hand in hand. An agent does not have to be rational to be useful. A good example is Google search spiders, their environment is the Internet, their task is to search for information, but to say that they are rational would be exaggerating a lot.

In this issue and in the following we will review a series of topics prior to rationality, but which are necessary to develop it. After we have reviewed these preliminaries, we can begin the study of rationality with a good foundation.

Look at nature, human beings, the top of the food chain, the most intelligent species on this planet, we live with countless other forms of life much less complex, and most of them lack rationality. However, many of them are useful to us.

The evolution of life began with a proto cell that managed to adapt to its environment, then, step by step, more and more complex beings appeared, until they reached us. That is the spirit of this magazine, to show you how Artificial Intelligence has evolved.

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Although our technology is very advanced, we have not yet reached that level.

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