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When 'artificial intelligence' is the same thing as 'crowdsourcing and averaging'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKNVwXU2rrI

This is misleading. It's just Wisdom of the Crowd stuff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd)

Traditional "Wisdom of crowds" are polls that take averages, which end up being fairly impressive. Swarms are real-time dynamics systems that converge on local maxima. It takes a little thinking to appreciate the difference, but it's profound. Swarms blow away traditional methods because they foster a real-time emergent intelligence, while polls just take a snap shot of group opinion. They're very different.

It's intelligence.

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