In order to address issues ranging from climate change to developing complex technologies and curing diseases, science relies on collective intelligence, or the ability of a group to work together and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the emerging realization that ...

If we think of intelligence as not only contained inside individual minds but as also emerging between people, then dialogue can be seen as key to collective intelligence. Traditional approaches to ...

Collective intelligence is on the rise—and it is, in fact, much more effective than our individual brains. That’s the main argument that neuroscientist and bestselling author Hannah Critchlow presents ...

Collective adaptive systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) embody a paradigm where distributed devices and sensors coalesce to form dynamic networks capable of self-organisation, coordinated ...

Swarm intelligence is a natural step in the evolution of certain social species. It explains why ants colonize, bees swarm, fish school and birds flock. Nature has proven that when individual ...

Nonprofits and companies have a tendency to assume away uncertainty. Many are satisfied with “strategies” that are essentially just three-year budgets, without reference to the probability of the ...