This talk reviews the scientific principles that power collective intelligence, and discusses their relationship to individual and artificial intelligence. Among the topics covered are the IQ of groups, the wisdom of crowds, the diversity theorem, prediction markets, the architecture of cognition, and artificial intelligence. Illustrated with many concrete examples, from termite mounds to neural nets, from intelligence tests to intelligence agencies, from epidemics to geopolitics, the talk also quizzes the audience with live digital polls that probe its collective intelligence.
Quick details about the event:
Date: 19 March 2024
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: Khalifa University – G01011
Dr. Émile Servan-Schreiber
Bio:
Prof. Émile Servan-Schreiber is a cognitive psychologist and a technology entrepreneur. Since 2000, he has been running the prediction markets company Hypermind, which designs crowdsourcing platforms for collective forecasting and prioritization. As a scientist, he has participated in several large-scale U.S. government research projects on the wisdom of crowds, and he is a founding member of the School of Collective Intelligence at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (Morocco). Before founding Hypermind, he worked as an artificial intelligence engineer (ILOG) and advised the OECD on its “brain and learning” program. He authored the award-winning multimedia CD-ROM Secrets of the Mind (Ubisoft, 1997) and the book Supercollectif (Fayard, 2018).