Cyber-human Teamwork MIT Spectrum

"For most real problems, there aren't perfect answers," writes Thomas W. Malone. "But when they are connected in the right ways, groups of people and computers together can often get closer to perfect intelligence than either could alone." Malone, who is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, explores the potential of such connections in his new book, Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together, from which this excerpt is taken. Will general AI be a form of collective intelligence? We know that the human brain is itself a form of collective intelligence.