Where are the (other) Prolog planning nerds?

[jjtolton]

I am obsessed with this book on Automated Planning. It's such a natural fit for Prolog. The only book I've been able to find that touches on this stuff is Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence and a handful of articles on metalevel.at, but surely there are other Prolog folks that are interested in this?

It's so fascinating, but it's a lonely road! Are there any groups, or discord channels, or conferences, or people that are really interested in this space? Most resources on it discuss it from a user perspective, i.e., "how to use PDDL to do X" and even worse most resources now are just garbage about how to use LLMs to do a terrible job of planning 🤣. If anyone knows anyone that is interested in this space -- in ANY language, honestly, but preferably Prolog because it's such a natural fit, please let me know!

[triska]

I've heard of several good experiences with the planner module in Picat! This could be well worth a look, and maybe you can draw a few inspirations for an analogous module in Scryer!

[hurufu]

It is well known that game F.E.A.R. used goal oriented action planning for enemy NPCs.

[haijinSk]

Once, learning how to program and being fascinated with collaborative diffusion (it's like magic: simple, but works like a "super AI") back then, I made a simple 2D game (but with "super intelligent" enemies) in Racket using the diffusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_diffusion

[jjtolton]

Whoa, this is very cool! I've never heard of this "anti-search" technique before!