Collaborative Intelligence - Overview

Overview

The term was used in 1999 in a business context to describe the behavior of an ecosystem of thought. This defines Collaborative Intelligence, or CQ, as "the ability to build, contribute to and manage power found in networks of people.".

Collaborative intelligence was later defined as to require the investigation of aspects of collective intelligence, namely those that acknowledge identity, as in social networks, as the foundation for next generation problem-solving ecosystems, modeled on evolutionary adaptation in nature’s ecosystems.

The Internet, as a rich, but noisy, platform, enables collaborative intelligence ecosystems, such as Wikipedia, to emerge and evolve, as life itself may have emerged and evolved toward increasingly ordered complexity. Constraints to direct evolution toward increased functional effectiveness co-evolve with systems to tag, credit, time-stamp, and sort content. Collaborative intelligence requires capacity for effective search, discovery, integration, visualization, and frameworks to support collaborative problem-solving. Google+ is evolving a platform where next generation social networks can drive more effective search, a potential platform for collaborative intelligence. Crowdsourcing can move beyond menial pattern recognition tasks to harness collaborative intelligence, retaining the identity of individual contributors in the social network.