From: rjones@soartech.com   
      
   Jeff Barnett wrote:   
   > Behi wrote:   
   >> Is there a special term in AI for agents that have memory and those   
   >> that have not?   
   >>   
   >> -Behrang   
   >>   
   >   
   > The terminology often used is "stateful" for those that have and   
   > "stateless" for those that don't. This answer presumes that you mean   
   > memory that survives from one agent interaction to its next one.   
      
   I have also sometimes referred to agents with no internal state or   
   memory as "purely reactive" agents.   
      
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