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Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture

Project description

Awareness engineering to deal with the “invisible”

In a world governed by the “invisible”, from unexplored environments to social interaction depending on the internal states of agents and moral norms, awareness is essential to survival. The CAVAA project will apply integrated computational architecture to explain awareness in biological systems and engineer it in technological ones. Their components will include perception, memory, virtualisation, simulation, and integration, which will then be embodied in robots and artificial agents. This architecture will be validated across a range of interactions between multiple humans and artificial agents to address issues like robot foraging, social robotics, computer game benchmarks etc. The goal is a better user experience within a framework of ethics towards human users and aware artefacts.

Objective

The Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture (CAVAA) project proposes that awareness serves survival in a world governed by hidden states, to deal with the invisible, from unexplored environments to social interaction that depends on the internal states of agents and moral norms. Awareness reflects a virtual world, a hybrid of perceptual evidence, memory states, and inferred unobservables, extended in space and time. The CAVAA project will realize a theory of awareness instantiated as an integrated computational architecture and its components to explain awareness in biological systems and engineer it in technological ones. It will realize underlying computational components of perception, memory, virtualization, simulation, and integration, embody the architecture in robots and artificial agents, validate it across a range of use-cases involving the interaction between multiple humans and artificial agents, using accepted measures and behavioural correlates of awareness. Use cases will address robot foraging, social robotics, computer game benchmarks and human-generated decision trees in a health coach. These benchmarks will focus on resolving trade-offs, e.g. between search efficiency and robustness, and assess the acceptance of human users of aware technology. CAVAAs awareness engineering is accompanied by an ethics framework towards human users and aware artefacts in the broader spectrum of trustworthy AI, considering shared ontologies, intention complementarity, and behavioural matching, an empathy, relevance of outcomes, reciprocity, counterfactuals and projections towards new future scenarios, and to predict the impact of choices. CAVAA will deliver a better user experience because of its explainability, adaptability, and legibility. CAVAAs integrated framework redefines how we look at the relationship between humans, other species and smart technologies because it makes the invisible visible.

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STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
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€ 685 000,00
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HOUTLAAN 4
6525 XZ Nijmegen
Netherlands

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Oost-Nederland Gelderland Arnhem/Nijmegen
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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