The Latest in Collective Intelligence

Reading Time: 2 minutes McDonald's new machine learning acquisition could well put the company in Amazon's crosshairs.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Insurance companies are experimenting with two strategies for motivating you to share your health information with them.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nike's new self-lacing shoes will connect us to the cloud with a service tether.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ants embed intelligence into their environment -- kind of like we do.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the era of the self-service platforms, automated monolithic machines wrapped in consumer-friendly branding.

Reading Time: 1 minute Really interesting idea from Scott Santens:

Reading Time: 1 minute Gamification has a dark side

Reading Time: 1 minute Structured data or a structured approach to content?

Reading Time: 1 minute The neocortex contains thousands of models functioning not only in hierarchy, but also in parallel.

Reading Time: 1 minute Wikipedia is using machine learning to better understand and deal with harassment and toxic behavior.

Reading Time: 1 minute A new system lets three people collaboratively play a Tetris-like game -- through brain-to-brain communication.

Reading Time: 1 minute Excellent interactive infographic explaining the game theory of cooperation.

Reading Time: 1 minute Can Wikipedia survive the culture wars and protect our share reality?