You can run, but you can't hide!
Oh, you're back? That's great, because it means that your eyes are capturing some light information that your brain is perceiving in an act that it is usually called reading. Everything we do, every decision we make, is based on what we perceive, and biologically we make short decision-making processes because time is crucial (e.g. you see a snake and your amygdala processes that information much faster and quicker than your visual cortex!).
With the same very concept, AI needs to base their decisions from facts by gathering information they need to perceive first. This chapter is all about perception, and how AI can get this information from the environment, so that it can be aware of its surroundings. We looked at EQS in the previous chapter, which gathers a lot of information about the surrounding environment and...