Collective intelligence

One and a half hour of highly entertaining and high speed train thoughts on diversity and how to apply it.

If you know what Stigmergy is about, you don't need to read this.  I didn't, so I read it.  But even if, you still can of course ...

Just as the boundary between non-life and life is unclear and subject to debate, so the distinction between crowd-sourcing as an instance of anonymous collective intelligence activity and crowd-sourcing as an instance of credited "open source" collaborative intelligence harnessing social networks can be debated

Some interesting observations and notes on the conference.

Good examples too!

Striking a good balance is always a challenge.  Too much of something good can go bad as well.

In the global auto industry, the biggest obstacle to collective intelligence is not a shortage of intellectual capital, but the lack of a crisis big enough and urgent enough to compel it into action.

In this paper, three possible categories of collective intelligence will be proposed: Evolved Intelligence, Autonomous Collective Intelligence, and Collaborative Intelligence.

It’s a great example of how social tools are being used to deliver real benefits in a crucial area.  You can find out more about Imagery to the Crowd by watching the video

Questions:

1. Can you tell us a bit about pop­u­la­tion shrink­age, what it is, how it hap­pens, and so on?

2. Why did you decide a game would be a good way to deal with this issue?

3. How did you design the game, what did your process look like?

4. What did you learn from the pilot you ran?

5. What’s next for the project?

Imagine a world where everybody’s mind is in connection with everyone else’s mind. All your thoughts are shared with every human being in existence and you yourself can access anyone’s opinion on anything they have ever encountered or thought about. What kind of world would that be? If you are given a choice right now to embrace everybody’s thoughts in exchange for sharing all thoughts of your own, would you proceed with that choice?

A simple but sound advice

H/T Devon Reid

We speak admiringly of the “self-made man,” and at times seem to emulate a cult of the individual.  However, we did not make ourselves, and even the mind which thinks such thoughts originates and exists in a collective.  Recognition of and integration of that concept into our individual and collective psyches will have a profound influence on the human condition.

Good synopsis

Some interesting observations and notes on the conference

Must read!

"Given that energized innovators like these are disrupting many existing products, and the business models behind them, you can feel threatened by them. Or you can learn from them and work to turn your own organization into a collection of amplified individuals. The latter is the path we've chosen at the Institute for the Future (IFTF). Based on what we've learned so far, I can offer a few tips for other organizations hoping to amplify their workers' talents and energy for greater innovation capacity and impact:

- Change how you measure performance;

- Design the organisation to support individual initiative, not control employee's actions;

- Socialize you underused assets.

Leadership as a critical component to success on a personal, political, or corporate level is discussed, evaluated and trained practically ad nauseam. There is no question on the value of leadership as critical to success. However, success and transformation do not and cannot only occur at the leadership level or on an individual basis. History shows us that change and success are a direct result of how individuals mobilize themselves through their collective intelligence. The point is that leadership alone does not make the difference in exacting change or in delivering winning strategies. The successful outcome of anything is just as likely a result of the collective intelligence and collective experiences of the group of people who come together under the same rallying cry.

... On the other hand, perhaps we should just fight the lies, since official lies lead to mass ignorance which leads, in turn, to wave upon wave of collective catastrophe. Or perhaps there are new institutions we could create that would officially make more of the truth more available to more of the people more of the time. Or perhaps it is time to take stock of our own half-truths and biases, dictated by the need to create positional stories solid enough to survive the political battleground. Perhaps it is time to re-think the trade-offs involved.

It's a wonder the social media crowd ever gets anything right...

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A couple of tweet-definitions of CI, interesting example btw.

To borrow a buzzword, what I’m describing here is drawing on the wisdom of crowds. And, in doing so, using technology to extract latent insights and boost the collective intelligence of an organisation.