Artificial Intelligence Versus Collective Intelligence (18) We want scientifically-grounded two-way traffic between philosophy and the Web. Technologies are ideas given flesh, the exteriorization of the conceptual structures and utopian impulses of humanity, and so are alien only insofar as their history and materiality are unknown. Artifactualization does not happen for and of itself, but reflects the ontological assumptions of their historical period. What is most interesting about the Web is it is clear that older philosophical categories like "mind" and "language" have to be fundamentally rethought. Thesis The Web is the rise of increasingly "intertwingled" techno-social assemblage that increasingly displaces the previous stable ontological assumption of the individual. A disciple of Norbert Wiener, the psychologist J.C.R. "Man-Machine Symbiosis" by J.C.R. "The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. AI attempted to define an individual on a level of abstraction and then implement this computationally.
The Immortal Blog Nonlinearity rules our world, and human minds are often too simplistic and shortsighted to comprehend it fully. People in general will agree that happiness is a (if not the) goal in their lives. However it is ironical that in spite of aspiring for happiness, they still wouldn’t be honest with themselves to pursue that goal single-mindedly. Why honesty and authenticity is important in life? Well, that’s a different post altogether, but briefly speaking, in the face of our inherently meaningless lives, why will anyone prefer a dishonest life over an honest one is beyond me. An example of such dishonesty is the utter ignorance of what freedom is and why happiness cannot be ensured without freedom. What really is freedom anyway? No one but you has any right on your life. What limits freedom? Inherently, everyone is free. Moral commitments about the future. This means that one should be careful about the future. Government, state and the law. Photo by Peter Szabo This is interesting.
What Is Intelligence? Just a Byproduct of Cooperation. | IdeaFeed What's the Latest Development? By developing computer simulations of neural networks that evolved over 50,000 generations, scientists at Trinity University have concluded that intelligence is an evolutionary byproduct of social teamwork. Each neural network, or 'brain', took part in two social dilemmas in which "two players must choose between cooperation and defection during repeated rounds. Upon completion of either game, each 'brain' produced 'offspring' with other 'brains' that made more advantageous choices during the games. ... After 50,000 generations, the model showed that as cooperation increased, so did the intelligence of the programmed brains." What's the Big Idea? Evolutionary biologists have long been puzzled by the high levels of intelligence that are seen in humans and other animals like primates, dolphins and birds. Photo credit: shutterstock.com
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matte El conocimiento no se gestiona: Estrategias para su producción y uso colaborativo Este año he participado en algunos proyectos y conferencias en que, de un modo u otro, el objetivo era la "gestión del conocimiento" en entornos digitales. En ese contexto, las preguntas claves que se plantean se centran en el papel que juegan las organizaciones, la estrategia para el desarrollo de plataformas digitales, las relaciones entre el conocimiento y las comunidades que lo producen y/o gestionan, y la función de la figura emergente de curador / comisario de contenidos / digital. Las notas que siguen recopilan algunas ideas que he manejado en este tiempo y se podrían resumir en una conclusión aparentemente negativa ("el conocimiento no se gestiona") pero que nos puede proporcionar claves para desarrollar estrategias efectivas para facilitar la producción y uso de conocimiento por comunidades de práctica de todo tipo. 1. - No gestionamos directamente la producción de conocimiento. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Techcrunch The Co-Intelligence Institute The Existential Terror of San Francisco After I sold my company I decided to visit New York City one time before I moved out to San Francisco. The trip was a lot of fun, but at one point I found myself completely out of cash, my ATM/debit card snapped in half, my credit card deactivated for suspected fraud, and my phone out of batteries. Then I got off at the wrong subway stop and found myself deep in the wrong part of Harlem. As scary as that was, it wasn’t anywhere near as frightening as the existential terror I feel every day walking the streets of San Francisco. When I walked through the streets of Manhattan, I saw residents going for a stroll or walking their dog or playing with their kids and I thought “Ah, I could live here”. The whole city feels like some sort of movie set; oversized and fake. I’ve been to San Francisco before, of course, but always on very carefully planned excursions. The city maltreats you even when you’re not doing anything wrong. Of course, San Francisco isn’t all pain. Can I get a what what!
Collective Intelligence It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence. Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time. What's new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Or think of Wikipedia, where thousands of people all over the world have collectively created a very large and amazingly high quality intellectual product with almost no centralized control. If we want to predict what's going to happen, especially if we want to be able to take advantage of what's going to happen, we need to understand those possibilities at a much deeper level than we do so far. Why are we doing all this work?
Crowdsourcing Collective Intelligence: how it can complement your insights | Market Intelligence Hub At Digimind, we’re always interested in speaking to other professionals who share our passion when it comes to unearthing valuable intelligence insights. This week we sat down with Leslie McCrory to talk about the importance of collective intelligence. Leslie has a wealth of experience in the market intelligence field, working with a number of the biggest companies across the technology and telecoms sectors. He is now director of The Foresights Factory based in the UK. 1) You’ve been working in the technology industry for many years, from your experience what is the main challenge of this industry regarding their market intelligence processes? Timing, relevance and convenience. As we all know and have seen over the past few decades, competition in technology markets is cut-throat and fortunes can change radically very quickly – companies, products and services are all in constant flux. 2) Why do you feel collective intelligence is so important? To my mind, however, one thing is missing.