[HN Gopher] Soar Cognitive Architecture
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       Soar Cognitive Architecture
        
       Author : zetalyrae
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-09-08 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (soar.eecs.umich.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (soar.eecs.umich.edu)
        
       | mynegation wrote:
       | It is ironic that the homepage for a tool that is supposed to
       | help research cognition (?) is doing such a bad job explaining
       | what it is.
        
       | zetalyrae wrote:
       | Cognitive architectures (like Soar, ACT-R, Sigma) are half
       | psychology and cognitive science (building general, computational
       | models of the human mind to understand it) and half AI (a
       | continuation of GOFAI, using similar symbolist/structured
       | approaches to intelligence).
       | 
       | Probably the most famous application of Soar is TacAir-Soar:
       | https://soartech.com/portfolio-posts/automated-intelligent-p...
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       | >TACAIR-SOAR is an intelligent, rule-based system that generates
       | believable humanlike behavior for largescale, distributed
       | military simulations. The innovation of the application is
       | primarily a matter of scale and integration. The system is
       | capable of executing most of the airborne missions that the U.S.
       | military flies in fixed-wing aircraft. It accomplishes its
       | missions by integrating a wide variety of intelligent
       | capabilities, including real-time hierarchical execution of
       | complex goals and plans, communication and coordination with
       | humans and simulated entities, maintenance of situational
       | awareness, and the ability to accept and respond to new orders
       | while in flight.
       | 
       | For a successor project, there's the Sigma cognitive
       | architecture, built by Paul Rosenbloom, who used to work on Soar:
       | https://cogarch.ict.usc.edu/
        
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