It was only a matter of time before the wisdom of crowds was made a practical strategy. "A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning. That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information."
The trick is, of course, as the book points out, to make sure the conditions are met. Otherwise you merely get the stupidity of the influential.
ScienceDaily: The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People:
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