It’s ironic, but artificial intelligence is on the cusp of harnessing the collective wisdom locked inside the human hive mind.
Showcasing a piece of software at a debate in the 200-year old Cambridge Union debating society in Cambridge, England in late November, IBM wanted to demonstrate that it could assist two teams of human debaters sift relevant arguments from a field of hundreds of pieces information, near instantly.
Of course the general concept that there’s wisdom in crowds is nothing new.
