Thomas Malone (2006) has defined collective intelligence as:
“Groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent”As reported in earlier postings, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is working deligently to answer the following:
“How can people and computers be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual, group, or computer has ever done before? “
Malone (2006) suggests that there are at least three types of research that need to be performed in order to answer the question.
1. Collecting interesting examples, and “systematically describing interesting cases of collective intelligence.”
2. Create new examples of collective intelligence environments.
3. Systematic studies and experiments.
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References
Malone, T. (2006). What is collective intelligence and what will we do about it? Retrieved January 6, 2008, from http://cci.mit.edu/about/MaloneLaunchRemarks.html