Talk:Collective intelligence
The entire political sense of collective intelligence has been removed, despite a mainstream politician (Al Gore) using it in just this sense. This is censorship, period. I request that you put some element of the material regarding political parties and constitutions as organizing collective action back in, as its removal seems simply to validate the narrowly technical views.
In opposition to the above, I state that technical views are anything but narrow. They are, in fact, quite useful in getting a deep understanding of CI.
Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz researched online Collective Intelligence starting in 1986. Their measure was obtained by comparing the group problem solution with the best individual solution in the group. See http://www.wikiworld.com/wiki/index.php/CollectiveIntelligence
Needs wikification
This needs to be split into sections for easier reading/scanning. It probably could also stand to be "tightened up" a bit (i.e., edited), but maybe that's just the impression I got from scanning through the 16 paragraphs with no section breaks. - dcljr (talk) 04:46, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I've had a bash at trying to sort it into slightly more managable chunks, but as I don't know a lot about this subject, I'm reluctant to do any more drastic editing!
In particular, the paragraphs that I put under "general concepts" don't make a lot of sense to me. Perhaps they should be edited, re-written or discarded by somebody who understands this topic.
At first glance, the French version of the page appears to be much better written and structured, with more interesting real-world examples. Here's a rough translation of the headings, just to give you a flavour:
- 1 Definition
* 1.1 Charactistics of collective systems
- 2 Natural collective intelligence
* 2.1 Migrating birds
* 2.2 Ants: a natural model for resolving distributed problems
o 2.2.1 Task division
+ 2.2.1.1 Mechanisms of task division
o 2.2.2 The shortest path
* 2.3 Termites and self-assembly (uncompleted)
- 3 Artificial collective intelligence
Perhaps it would be worth translating some of this for the English version? I could do it if necessary. Please contact me if you would find it useful.