Abstract
Org(SB-EAI) aims at introducing a new approach to Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI). The intended goal of the project is to integrate EAI's modeling of cognition with techniques from Synthetic Biology, in order to generate artificial models of natural cognitive processes useful for research and applicative purposes. The project, developed in the field of Philosophy of AI, shares EAI's programmatic goal. In particular, it complies with EAI's positive emphasis on the role played by the biological body in cognition, and the related focalization more on 'complete agents' – artificial agents endowed with a body, i.e. robots – rather than on computer programs. Org(SB-EAI), however, questions EAI's modeling of the biological body. The project converges with current criticisms in considering that EAI concentrates on bodily superficial aspects (e.g., materials and anatomical structures) and neglects the body's organization, i.e., the network of functional relations generating its most specific feature – metabolic self-production. The Org(SB-EAI) project draws on these criticisms to introduce a new, organizational approach to EAI. Recent attempts of founding an organizational EAI are limited by their exclusive attention for hardware and software models – the synthetic models traditionally produced by AI. What is missing is the introduction in EAI of wetware chemical models, particularly suitable for the artificial implementation of the biological organization. Org(SB-EAI) aims at filling this gap by laying the grounds of an organizational EAI based on techniques from Synthetic Biology, whose wetware modeling of biological processes have strong implications in minimal EAI and future biotechnologies.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Andrea Roli
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria
Coordinatore:
Università del Salento(Italy)
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 19.077,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 28
Data di inizio
05/10/2023
Data di fine:
28/02/2026
