Machines that Dream: A New Challenge in Behavioral-Basic Robotics

The digital revolution is transforming contemporary society. Connective intelligence is an emerging property deriving from the embedding of intelligence into the connected data, concepts, applications, and people. Furthermore, the progress in behavioral-basic robotics opens new fields of innovative investigation.In this challenging context, might it make sense to provide machines with dreaming-like functions? Indeed, machine inactivity can be assimilated to the sleep state of living beings. Furthermore, when dreaming, we can interact with what we take to be other individuals and things and, in certain respects, the same happens in the virtual world.This paper highlights some new directions that have emerged in the field of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on the total Turing test and dreaming machines.