Collective intelligence

Can an organization, operating in today’s increasingly networked world, choose to ignore the insights of employees, customers, business partners and expect to thrive?

The notion of how we collaborate has been one that whilst often discussed has never really been nailed down. Game theory offers up the basic tit-for-tat principle whereby we collaborate until the other party proves themselves untrustworthy, at which point collaboration breaks down.

Here are some principles of mass collaboration:

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While there are clearly many benefits to crowdsourcing as a means of pooling resources, knowledge, money and/or time as a way of achieving results, there are, of course, certain serious issues to be considered.

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Co-creating and collective intelligence/wisdom are forming a hybrid forces, a calling to reclaim the participation of people in groups as positive, useful, healing, life affirming. We alter the way that we see the world in order to solve problems together.

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If we are going to take wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity seriously, we are going to have to face some very challenging implications regarding intelligence:

First: Intelligence must involve more than logical reason, since rationality constitutes only a tiny piece of our full capacity to learn from and relate to life.
Second: Intelligence must involve more than learning how to control and predict things, since that does not engage the powerful co-creativity of life.
Third: Intelligence must be far more than personal, since even ants can together generate an intelligence that's greater than they have individually.
Fourth: Intelligence needs to reach far beyond the obvious, since whatever is obvious is connected to things that aren't so obvious, and intelligence should engage with the wholeness and relatedness of things, as much as possible.
Fifth: Intelligence should be able to arise among us and through us, as a result of our kinship in the interconnected family of life.
Sixth: It would seem likely that some form of intelligence would exist beyond us--in and beyond the living world--built into the very wholeness of life.

AI for combat has come a long way in the past 15 years, or so. How we can make other parts of the experience -- the social interaction, and storytelling -- as dynamic as the combat? While numerous games deliver sandbox-style combat that adapts to player choices, social interaction and storytelling is generally either entirely linear, or scripted with limited opportunities for interaction or influence. Game developers have mastered pathfinding, animation, scripting, and reactive behavior, but have made less progress producing characters that can dynamically communicate, cooperate, and maintain coherent interactions over long periods of time.

What about The Sims and Facade? These are exceptions that inspire my work, but lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, where I am targeting something in between. The Sims is entirely emergent; a doll house that does not attempt to tell any particular narrative. Facade tells a specific, coherent narrative, but has been criticized for limiting player agency.