But what if we can tap into the intelligence of plants?
Rather than relying on the gut instincts of a single decision-maker, prediction markets tap the collective intelligence of everyone playing the market.
And finally, the ability to tap the distributed intelligence of millions of consumers to match people with the stuff that suits them best is leading to the rise of all sorts of new recommendation and marketing methods, essentially serving as the new tastemakers".
"We want to be part of the world as it grows and to tap the passion, intelligence and pride of people building these new markets," Fister says.
The company markets products that allow organizations to tap the collective intelligence of its employees, partners and customers to help them gain insights about their business.
It sounds like Williams thinks the answer will have less to do with keeping fake news off the platform entirely, and more with tapping into "the intelligence of the network" to ensure that high-quality information (or information that corrects/combats misleading stories) gets more visibility.
Each of the three themes or lessons is illustrated by examples: Memphis police using data analysis to curb crime; a Mexican cement maker tapping the crowdsourced intelligence of its workers in product development: and the Obama campaign's sifting of data to pinpoint get-out-the-vote efforts.
Milner is tapping the collective intelligence of SETI@home, Berkeley's distributed computing platform, which will afford the project 9 million volunteers around the world donating their extra computing power to the project.
Perhaps, instead of relying on the judgment of individual forecasters, who are subject to all kinds of psychological biases, institutional pressures and limits on the amount of information they can process, we might end up with better results if we tapped the collective intelligence of forecasters as a whole.
Where reporters across any topic and beat try to seek the truth, tapping information from the intelligence community is near impossible.
