Archives for 18 November 2007
Center for Collective Intelligence
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 8:33 pm.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Internet, Philosophy, Research.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is investigating the phenomenon of collective intelligence with the goal of improving collective decision making in social and business systems. They are working to devlop methodologies for quantifying and measuring collective intelligence.
Perhaps in the future we will be able to quantify and characterize the collective intelligence of ant colonies.
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Collective Intelligence in Ant Colonies
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 12:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Information, Intelligent Systems.
I have always been fascinated by the idea that ant colonies may exhibit some kind of collective intelligence. Whether this is actually the case needs to be proven, however, I am not quite sure how one can prove such a hypothesis. As far as I am aware, there is no Turing Test for ant colonies. [...]
