🎭 collective intelligence

• scientific field, which examines how
  • groups of individuals collaborate and pool their knowledge and tokens
  • to solve problems, make decisions, and generate knowledge
• foundations are built on principles from: biology, sociology, psychology, computer science, and economics
• cyber built collective artificial intelligence system
• this short list of articles explain how cyber apply the most fundamental concepts observed in nature

key concepts

• consensus
• collective memory
• distributed cognition
• diversity
• coordination
• cooperation
• self-organization
• stigmergy
• emergence

key algorithms

• delphi method

• random walk

• trust systems

• cooperative games

• prediction markets

• truth machine

• more to embrace

  • swarm intelligence
  • genetic algorithms
  • crowd sourcing
  • collaborative filtering
  • ensemble learning
  • network analysis

• basic evidence which is interesting proof of diversity

  • c as measure of collective intelligence
  • according to woolley is not correlated with c
    • team cohesion
    • motivation
    • satisfaction
  • they claim that factors were found as significant correlates
    • the variance in the number of speaking turns
    • group members average social sensitivity
    • proportion of females ⇒ women are collectively smarter
    • providing multiple team members the chance to speak up made a group more intelligent
    • groups that are moderately diverse in cognitive style
      • have higher collective intelligence
      • than those who are very similar in cognitive style or very different

• bostrom and spacepussy offers simple collective learning

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