arXiv AI By Michael Migacev, Vito Mengers, Antonia K\"ongeter, Oliver Brock

No Plan, Yet Human: A Reactive Robotics Model Predicts Human Planning Failures on a Clinical Task

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The paper applies the AICON reactive gradient‑descent framework, originally designed for robotic manipulation, to the Tower of London cognitive test. AICON, without any lookahead planning or human cognition knowledge, reproduces the fine‑grained difficulty ordering of 24 problems better than structural task parameters and generalizes to held‑out problems. It outperforms a planning baseline for groups with reduced planning capacity (e.g., Parkinson’s patients) while the baseline better captures healthy controls, indicating that reduced planning capacity shifts human behavior toward a reactive mode similar to AICON’s failure patterns.

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