Howard Selina

he holy grail of Artificial Intelligence is to understand man as a machine. Artificial Intelligence also aims to arrive at a general theory of intelligent action in agents: not just humans and animals, but individuals in the wider sense.

An agent is something capable of intelligent behaviour. It could be a robot or a computer program.

AI has one foot in science and one in engineering

So, for Weak AI, the model is a useful tool for understanding the mind; for Strong AI, the model is a mind