Descripción del proyecto
El trabajo en equipo consigue maravillas: conciencia colaborativa emergente entre agentes artificiales
Los organismos vivos tienen que ser conscientes de sí mismos y de otros organismos para exhibir comportamientos cooperativos eficaces. En lo que respecta a las aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial, se carece de un marco adecuado que no limite la heterogeneidad de los agentes individuales y que permita la conciencia global, sin perder la conciencia local de los agentes artificiales individuales. Esta circunstancia dificulta el despliegue de agentes artificiales capaces de mostrar comportamientos cooperativos complejos. El proyecto EMERGE, financiado con fondos europeos, permitirá una conciencia colaborativa emergente entre colectivos de seres artificiales mínimos sin protocolos definidos de forma previa. Respaldará sistemas complejos, distribuidos y flexibles que muestren colaboración, autorregulación e interoperabilidad. El marco de EMERGE proporcionará información que promoverá la asignación de conciencia a fin de optimizar la consecución de los resultados deseados.
Objetivo
Awareness in biological agents has converging definitions when considering local states describing content-related consciousness from an agent-specific perspective. However, it becomes highly debated when it comes to global states. The issue magnifies when considering collectives of artificial agents. Several frameworks exist, all unsatisfactory in the limitations posed to agents’ heterogeneity and disappearance of the local self into an integrated state. Ultimately, existing frameworks are ineffective in explaining, facilitating, and supporting cooperative behaviours in artificial agents. The lack of a compelling theory of global awareness in AI is currently a significant barrier to the effective deployment of artificial agents in the real world. EMERGE tackles this grand challenge by introducing the novel concept of collaborative awareness for collectives of minimal artificial beings. We will investigate how simple agents can develop a representation of their mutual existence, environment, and cooperative behaviour towards the realization of tasks and goals. EMERGE builds on a scenario of artificial beings with no shared language and constrained individual capabilities, which nevertheless leads to high-complexity behaviours at the collective level. Collaborative awareness becomes an emergent process supporting complex, distributed, and loosely coupled systems capable of high degrees of collaboration, self-regulation, and interoperability without pre-defined protocols. EMERGE delivers a philosophical, mathematical, and technological framework that enables us to know how and where to allocate awareness to achieve a goal through the collective optimally. We will demonstrate EMERGE concepts on robotic use cases, with hints of broader applicability of the framework to Internet of Things, pervasive computing, nanotechnologies. We will also investigate the ethical implications of collaborative awareness, focusing on moral responsibility, vulnerabilities, and trust.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Convocatoria de propuestas
HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01
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HORIZON-EIC - HORIZON EIC GrantsCoordinador
56126 Pisa
Italia