
Soar Cognitive Architecture
by John E. Laird, Robert E. Wray III, Yongjia Wang, Nate Derbinsky, Andrew M. Nuxoll · first published 2012
6mentions
1recommended by
3HN commenters
2020–2023first – last mentioned
33% recommend67% neutral
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

…Mention - Non-Fiction: We See It All - Jon Fasman Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks - James A. Anderson The Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird
on “Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…Mention - Non-Fiction: We See It All - Jon Fasman Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks - James A. Anderson The Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…Kistler 60. Neural Engineering - Chris Eliasmith & Charles H. Anderson 61. Principles of Neural Design - Peter Sterling & Simon Laughlin 62. Semantic Information Processing - Marvin Minsky 63. The SOAR Cognitive Architecture - John Laird 64. The Architecture of Cognition - John Anderson 65. Human Associative Memory - John Anderson & Gordon E. Bower 66. Knowledge Representation & Reasoning - Ronald J. Brachman & Hector…
on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?” ↗…so I have a lot of time to catch up on side interests for the next couple of days. Right now I'm mostly still just deep-diving into various bits of "stuff" related to AI. I just finished reading a The SOAR Cognitive Architecture by John Laird, and Engineering General Intelligence Part 2 by Ben Goertzel, as well as Words and Rules by Stephen Pinker. Also spent some time building and installing all of OpenCog, and installing SOAR.…
on “Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)” ↗…this, as part of another classic CMU AI research project on Cognitive Architectures, John R. Anderson's group explored how humans do math in their head as part of his ACT-R project: https://www.amazon.com/Soar-Cognitive-Architecture-MIT-Press... The ACT-R group partnered up with cognitive scientists & neuroscientists and performed FMRIs on students while they were doing math problems.
on “Show HN: Recursive LLM Prompts” ↗…been widely used by AI researchers to create intelligent agents and cognitive models of different aspects of human behavior. The most current and comprehensive description of Soar is the 2012 book, The Soar Cognitive Architecture." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_(cognitive_architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
on “The messy secret reality behind OpenAI” ↗