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In <a href="https://hackernoon.com/making-artificial-intelligence-work-for-you-part-1-what-is-ai-dd7512058e0e?source=linkShare-5ca576794be4-1490127476" target="_blank">Part 1 of our guide to AI</a>, we introduced artificial intelligence through a process of defining increasingly more sophisticated agents. Agents are programs that perceive their environment through sensors and act on the environment through effectors. They can be proactive in their actions and autonomous in their decision-making.