9 SOCIAL MACHINES
As we search for intelligence, we may be looking in the wrong place: what if the intelligent agents that we encounter every day were actually social machines that include billions of participants? Depending on how we draw the boundaries of a system, we may see collective intelligence emerge from the behaviour of organisations such as ant colonies, and the same type of intelligence can be found in the massive social machines that we have created over the past two decades. Recognising them as intelligent agents may help us find better ways to interact with them.
THE ESP GAME
Two complete strangers face their screens at the same time; one of them is returning home on the night bus and the other ...
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