PERSPECTIVES ON INTELLIGENCE FROM WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE COLLECTIVE

The advent of the Internet has given arise to multifarious forms of information production and consumption by individuals and by collections of agents, both computation and human. The term “collective intelligence” remains necessarily ill defined. Some examples of the way in which the term is applied or implied include: reference to human beings working together intentionally; collaborative filtering and people as less intentional providers of Big Data; and ‘swarm intelligences’ afforded by collections of computational agents.