Bruce
Muirhead
Is an entrepreneur, speaker, and media commentator on designing large-scale collaborations and collective intelligence. Above all, he’s best known to the broader community for designing large-scale collaborative projects such as Mindhive, Boilerhouse, and Eidos. He is also a contributor to popularising collective intelligence globally.
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Future Forecasting
Antony Funnell interviewed Bruce Muirhead on ABC Radio National’s ‘Future Tense’ on 27 June 2021, speaking to Mindhive, crowdsourcing and forecasting.
Trying to predict the future is a timeless and time-consuming pursuit. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being enlisted to the cause, but so are “super-forecasters” – a new clique of individuals with remarkable predictive powers.
But what are their limits? What does their rise say about the still popular notion of collective intelligence? The wisdom of the crowd? Future Tense looks at the changing role of humans in forecasting.
Crowds and Collaborative Intelligence
Future Tense with Anthony Funnell and Bruce Muirhead.
“If we can crowdsource a bottle of wine to make it cheaper for the citizenry in Australia. Why can’t we crowdsource the intellectual capital in Australia to bring that to the problems and challenges in Australia? So the beginning of the technology was something of an ISP platform or crowdsourcing and crowdfunding type of idea.
So what we ended up building was ideas like Gumtree, which was a quick upload of a challenge, a little bit of E-harmony, and an RSVP.com idea for the search of entrepreneurs that match the challenge needs. The ability for users to search for experts on a skills-based, on an interest-based. The biggest driver for most organisations these days was limited resources in government and increasing pressure on universities and consultancy houses dealing with the fragmentation expertise. Was the demonstration of the problem solve… the impact.”
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What is collective intelligence?
Collective intelligence is groups of individuals collaborating in ways that seem intelligent. In a recent interview with Deloitte Insights, Malone broadened his definition.
“I think it’s probably more useful to think of collective intelligence as the property that a supermind has. Collective intelligence is something that can emerge from a group that includes people and computers. Or it could be a group of only computers, or of bees or ants or even bacteria. Collective intelligence is a very general property, and superminds can arise in many kinds of systems. Although the systems I’ve mostly talked about are those that involve people and computers.”
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“I think it’s probably more useful to think of collective intelligence as the property that a supermind has. Collective intelligence is something that can emerge from a group that includes people and computers. Or it could be a group of only computers, or of bees or ants or even bacteria. Collective intelligence is a very general property, and superminds can arise in many kinds of systems. Although the systems I’ve mostly talked about are those that involve people and computers.”
Information Breakdown: The way forward when misguided beliefs endanger the wider population
Belief is a powerful force. So powerful in fact that it can both guide and define the lives of those who hold its edicts close
Don’t switch off — Ignoring COVID-19 is more dangerous than the virus itself
Around the world COVID-19 is extending its influence, infecting thousands of new victims every day, many of whom are completely unaware that they are now
Tech ‘should bring collective intelligence to issues that are common to us all’
From dictionaries and religious texts to Wikipedia, YouTube, IMDB and Quora, our collective intelligence allows us to share knowledge at an unprecedented rate. While we are making full use of technology for gaining knowledge, we have also begun to bring problem-solving and crowdsourcing on tech platforms.
“When connected, collective intelligence starts to connect human intelligence and artificial intelligence, that’s where we start to see the most exciting stuff happen”