Opinion dynamics models do _not_ need to be an abstraction of reality. You can also build them to reproduce measured human behaviour in experiments.

https://www.jasss.org/25/4/4.html

It took me a while, but we finally have the second episode of the Computational Social Science podcast!

This time, we talk about collective intelligence 🧐

You can find it on Youtube...
https://youtu.be/547ZQAa_koE

...or on your favourite platform
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2226458/episodes/19176707-ep-2-what-makes-a-group-intelligent-or-stupid

Just found out that the paper where Galton introduced correlation has fewer than 1,000 citations. It makes sense that people don’t cite it every time, but that still feels surprisingly low!

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspl/article/45/273-279/135/39211/I-Co-relations-and-their-measurement-chiefly-from?guestAccessKey=

Year 3 of asking ChatGPT to write a joke about ABMs.

Main finding: Instead of producing better jokes, it’s just becoming aware that they’re simply not funny.

Do we really need representatives in a democracy? Our paper shows how systems based on collective intelligence could be used by citizens to identify and find solutions to their problems even at a national scale!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397018149_The_Wisdom_of_the_Democratic_Crowd_Allowing_Collective_Intelligence_at_Massive_Scale

Another figure from a (now retracted) scientific publication. I'm not an expert, but I feel proportions may be a little off...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/wrong-ai-generated-images-in-scientific-journal-put-a-strain-on-swiss-publisher-frontiers/73657004

Yes, this is a real image from a scientific publication 😅

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380025001966