The awakening of conscious bots Conscious Robots team winner of the 2 K BotPrize 2010 contest
Most of current efforts in the development of believable bots bots that behave like human players are based on classical AI techniques. These techniques are based on relatively old principles, which nevertheless are being progressively improved or wisely adapted increasing their performance in order to satisfy new game requirements. Taking a different perspective, the approach that we adopted for the design of our bot (CC Bot2) was rather opposed to this trend. Specifically, we implemented a computational model of the Global Workspace Theory (Baars, 1988) a kind of shared memory space where different agents that we call specialized processors can collaborate and compete with each other dynamically (see Figure 1) We believe that applying new techniques from the field of Machine Consciousness might also provide good results, even in the short term.