Towards Collective Superintelligence: Amplifying Group IQ Using Conversational Swarms

Louis Rosenberg, Gregg Willcox, Hans Schumann, Ganesh Mani

2024

Abstract

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a natural phenomenon that enables biological groups to amplify their combined intellect by forming real-time systems. Artificial Swarm Intelligence (or Swarm AI) is a technology that enables networked human groups to amplify their combined intelligence by forming similar systems. In the past, swarm-based methods were constrained to narrowly defined tasks like probabilistic forecasting and multiple-choice decision making. A new technology called Conversational Swarm Intelligence (CSI) was developed in 2023 that amplifies the decision-making accuracy of networked human groups through natural conversational deliberations mediated by artificial agents. The current study evaluated the ability of real-time groups using a CSI platform to take a common IQ test known as Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM). First, a baseline group of participants took the Raven’s IQ test by traditional survey. This group averaged 45.7 correct. Then, groups of approximately 35 individuals answered IQ test questions together using a CSI platform called Thinkscape. These groups averaged 80.5% correct. This puts the CSI groups in the 97th percentile of IQ test-takers and corresponds to an effective IQ increase of 28 points (p<0.001). This is an encouraging result and suggests that CSI is a powerful method for enabling conversational collective intelligence in large, networked groups. In addition, because CSI deliberations are scalable across groups of potentially any size, these methods may provide a pathway to building a Collective Superintelligence.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rosenberg L., Willcox G., Schumann H. and Mani G. (2024). Towards Collective Superintelligence: Amplifying Group IQ Using Conversational Swarms. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 759-766. DOI: 10.5220/0012687500003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Louis Rosenberg and Gregg Willcox and Hans Schumann and Ganesh Mani},
title={Towards Collective Superintelligence: Amplifying Group IQ Using Conversational Swarms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={759-766},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012687500003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - Towards Collective Superintelligence: Amplifying Group IQ Using Conversational Swarms
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Rosenberg L.
AU - Willcox G.
AU - Schumann H.
AU - Mani G.
PY - 2024
SP - 759
EP - 766
DO - 10.5220/0012687500003690
PB - SciTePress