human computation
social computing
crowdsourcing
wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
group memory and problem-solving
deliberative democracy
animal collective behavior
mechanism design
organizational design
public policy design
ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “digital sweatshops”)
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter

Solving Climate Change with CrowdSourcing

I am fed up with the academics who are overselling the wisdom of crowds. Enough already.

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Via Mike Linksvayer

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HINT: collective intelligence

Photo Credit: Neely Steinberg

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Tom Malone

MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence

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PS: The guy on the computer is Jason Carver.

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Exactly. It’s not just Google the company, it’s the whole system of people creating Web pages, linking those pages to each other, and then the Google algorithms that analyze all that knowledge and give you amazingly intelligent answers. That system is a great example of collective intelligence—in this case, one that’s dependent on very high-tech algorithms and vast amounts of computational resources.

Google and Wikipedia are just scratching the surface of whole new kinds of organisms —economic organisms or even information organisms— that will spread around the globe doing the things that we take for granted in radically new ways—and doing things that were never even possible before.