International Workshop on Artificial Consciousness 23-24 November - Agrigento - Sicily |
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Organizing commitee:
Antonio Chella
Riccardo Manzotti
The workshop is
an interdisciplinary event focused on the topic of artificial consciousness:
from neuroscience to artificial intelligence, from bioengineering to robotics.
Current robotic implementations showed impressive mechanical achievement
(i.e. ASIMO by Honda or QRIO by SONY) and yet these robotic devices are
incapable of equally outstanding perceptual and cognitive performances.
A new generation of robots aimed at interacting with humans in an
unconstrained environment shall need a better awareness of their surroundings
and of the relevant events, objects, and agents. In short, the new generation of
robots shall need some form of “artificial consciousness”.
The problem of consciousness is twofold: the nature of phenomenal
consciousness (the hard problem) and the active role of consciousness in
controlling and planning the behaviour of an agent. We do not know yet if it is
possible to solve the two aspects separately; however the field of artificial
consciousness is focusing mainly on the second one.
The workshop provides an overview on the current state of the art of
research in the field of artificial consciousness.
