[In the Media] Il Sole 24 Ore: University of Pisa, start of European project for Artificial Intelligence

04 November 2022

The start of the EMERGE Project was highlighted by the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

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"The Emerge project intends to explore the concept of emergent consciousness and its role in facilitating collaboration in collectives of intelligent but individually very simple agents," explains Bacciu. "In today's multi-agent artificial systems, complex cooperative behaviour is achieved at the expense of the heterogeneity of the collective's components. Emerge aims to extend to artificial agents the ability, typical of living organisms, to possess both self-consciousness and the awareness of belonging to a collaborative collective, without the former necessarily dissolving into the latter. The ultimate goal of the project is to make possible the development of complex, distributed and flexible systems, capable of exhibiting collaborative behaviour, self-regulating and characterised by 'natural' interoperability, i.e. in the absence of predefined communication protocols."

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Read more below (in Italian).