Six Reasons Why We Need to Take a Collaborative Approach to AI Development

Author(s): Rudradeb Mitra

Originally published on Towards AI.

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(This article is co-authored with Yang Gao and Michael Burkhardt)

A century ago, in 1906, statistician Francis Galton showed the power of the crowd. At the International Exhibition in London, he asked the crowd to guess the weight of an Ox and the average of what the crowd guessed was 1,197 pounds. The actual weight was 1,198 pounds. The crowd´s collective judgment was almost perfect.

Wisdom of the crowd is a known phenomenon, but despite that companies focus on selecting and working with people at the top who are highly specialized. This is under the assumption that they have a better… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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