🧠 I released v0.12 of my gactar tool for creating & running basic ACT-R models on multiple implementations using a single declarative file format.

ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought — Rational) is both a theory of cognition and an implementation of that theory in software.

This release fixes issues, adds some capabilities to the language, & adds some new command-line tools.

https://github.com/asmaloney/gactar/releases/tag/v0.12.0

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OpenSource #GoLang

For any cognitive science people out there in the Mastiverse who are into *symbolic*, I've just updated my mirror of Lisp ACT-R on GitHub to **7.27.7 **from 19 July 2022.

https://github.com/asmaloney/ACT-R

(For non-CogSci people, ACT-R (Adaptive Control of Thought — Rational) is both a theory of cognition and an implementation of that theory in software.)

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OldSchoolAI #Lisp

🧠 I released v0.11 of my gactar tool for creating & running basic ACT-R models on multiple implementations using a single declarative file format.

This release changes it to a command-style cli & adds colour to the command-line output.

https://github.com/asmaloney/gactar

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #CognitiveArchitecture #CognitiveModelling #ACTR #OldSchoolAI

@AbelTM @garymarcus I can see that. I don't know Bengio's approach in full detail.
But, Laird's approach has been that of integration - as computational systems mature, he attempts to bring them into the #CognitiveArchitecture

For instance, we are current studying what it means to connect (theoretically and systematically) #CV #transformer models in visual reasoning with #cognitive #relational #representations similar to what a #AIPlanner would use.

Laird is from the #AllenNewell school of #UnifiedTheoriesOfCognition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Theories_of_Cognition

Allen famously stated "You can't play 20 questions with nature and win!".
https://mindhacks.com/2015/02/10/you-cant-play-20-questions-with-nature-and-win/. We can't implement cognitive capabilities - vision, NLP, planning, RL - separately and claim to understand human intelligence. Human brain does all of this in a single #architecture.

#Soar is Laird's approach to that challenge - how do we build a #CognitiveArchitecture
https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/

#AI #ML

This weekend will be exciting! John E. Laird (https://laird.engin.umich.edu/), Yoshua Bengio (https://yoshuabengio.org/) and @garymarcus are speaking at #AAAI #FSS 2022 on Thinking Fast and Slow - https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-fss22/program.

Laird and Bengio represent the cognitive-symbolic and statistical-sub-symbolic views respectively. Both have architectures that implement some form of 'fast and slow'. @garymarcus ofcourse is the chief cynic :)

#AI #ML #ThinkingFastAndSlow #CognitiveArchitecture #NeuroSymbolic

[Thread (1/n)]: In the #paper "A #Storytelling Robot managing Persuasive and Ethical Stances via ACT-R" (available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.12845.pdf) and published on the International Journal of Social #Robotics, we present a #persuasiverobot integrating (via the ACT-R #cognitivearchitecture) #storytelling strategies, #ethical stances, and #rhetoricaltechniques (based on #framing and on the use of some fallacious arguments like the "argumentum ad verecundiam" and the "argumentum ad populum"). 👇

[Thread (1/2)]: In the #paper "A #Storytelling Robot managing Persuasive and Ethical Stances via ACT-R" (available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.12845.pdf) and published on the International Journal of Social #Robotics, we present a #persuasiverobot integrating (via the ACT-R #cognitivearchitecture) #storytelling strategies, #ethical stances, and #rhetoricaltechniques (based on #framing and on the use of some fallacious arguments like the "argumentum ad verecundiam" and the "argumentum ad populum"). 👇

@davidbeers

You may also find the Common Model of Cognition paper - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2744 by Laird et al. also interesting.

It is not modern per se because the #CognitiveArchitecture research is 40 years old at this point. But, we are still advancing it as new computational methods are discovered.