My first Presentation in Network Media!

Hiren, Sharon, Thandie and Rupi

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Information to go with my slides, these are for the first few:

Slide 1: Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. It is present in a wide variety of forms of consensus decisions making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks.

Slide 2: Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki explores how a group of people can make certain types of decisions and predictions better than individuals or experts.

Slide 3: Four elements to create a wise crowd. Diversity of opinion: Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric interpretation of the known fact.

Independence: Peoples Opinions aren't determined by the opinion of those around them.

Decentralisation: People are able to specialise and draw on local knowledge.

Aggregation: Some mechanism exists for turning private judgements into collective decisions.

Slide 4: Failure of crowd intelligence. Surowiecki believes when crowds produce very bad judgments, it's due to their cognition and co-operation. He argues that members of the crowds were too conscious of the opinions of other members and began to conform rather than think differently.

Final Slide: Essential. Collective intelligence is a huge part of our society. Without collaborative work our society wouldn't be moving forward, it would be at a continuing stand still. Although under great criticism, without a doubt it is a vital part of our growing society.