Descrizione del progetto
Dal lavoro di squadra al lavoro dei sogni: un’emergente consapevolezza collaborativa negli agenti artificiali
Gli organismi viventi devono essere consapevoli di se stessi e degli altri organismi per dimostrare comportamenti di cooperazione efficaci. Quando si tratta di applicazioni di IA, non esistono strutture appropriate che non limitino l’eterogeneità dei singoli agenti e che consentano una consapevolezza globale, senza perdere la consapevolezza locale dei singoli agenti artificiali. Ciò ostacola lo sviluppo di agenti artificiali capaci di mostrare comportamenti di cooperazione complessi. Il progetto EMERGE, finanziato dall’UE, consentirà di ottenere una consapevolezza collaborativa emergente tra i collettivi di esseri artificiali minimi senza protocolli predefiniti. Fornirà un sostegno a sistemi complessi, distribuiti e flessibili che mostrano collaborazione, autoregolazione e interoperabilità. La struttura di EMERGE offrirà informazioni approfondite che promuoveranno l’assegnazione della consapevolezza per ottimizzare il conseguimento dei risultati desiderati.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC) Main Programme
Invito a presentare proposte
HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01
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