DAYDREAMER is a
goal-based agent and
cognitive architecture A cognitive architecture refers to both a theory about the structure of the human mind and to a computational instantiation of such a theory used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. The formalized mod ...
developed at
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
by Erik Mueller. It models the human stream of thought and its triggering and direction by emotions, as in human
daydream
Daydreaming is the stream of consciousness that detaches from current, external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. This phenomenon is common in people's daily life shown by a large-scale study in which partici ...
ing.
[Turner, Scott R. (1994)]
''The Creative Process: A Computer Model of Storytelling and Creativity''
p. 217. Routledge[Ehn, Billy and Löfgren, Orvar (2010)]
''The Secret World of Doing Nothing''
University of California Press, 1 May 2010 The architecture is implemented as 12,000 lines of
Lisp
A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants (, , , , , , , ). These misarticulations often result in unclear speech.
Types
* A frontal lisp occurs when the tongue is placed anterior to the target. Interdental lisping ...
code.
History
DAYDREAMER was begun by Erik Mueller in 1983 while he was studying under
Michael G. Dyer in the
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
Computer Science Department.
[Dyer, Michael G. (1994)]
"Review: ''The Society of Mind'' by Marvin Minsky"
in William J. Clancey, Stephen W. Smoliar, Mark Stefik (eds.) ''Contemplating Minds: A Forum for Artificial Intelligence'', p. 262. MIT Press It was completed in 1987 and was followed by the ThoughtTreasure program, which was started in 1993.
See also
*
Intelligent agent
In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is anything which perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously in order to achieve goals, and may improve its performance with learning or may use knowledge. They may be simple or c ...
*
Interactive storytelling
Interactive storytelling (also known as interactive drama) is a form of digital entertainment in which the storyline is not predetermined. The author creates the setting, characters, and situation which the narrative must address, but the user (a ...
References
;Further reading
* Mueller, Erik T. (1990)
''Daydreaming in humans and machines'' Norwood, NJ: Ablex. .
* Mueller, Erik T., & Dyer, Michael G. (1985)
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
* Mueller, Erik T., & Dyer, Michael G. (1985)
"Daydreaming in humans and computers" ''Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence''. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
External links
DAYDREAMER code at GitHubDAYDREAMER code at CMU
Cognitive architecture
Common Lisp (programming language) software
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