
EP31: Blockchain, Crowd Wisdom, and AI with Cindicator
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education · Buck Joffrey
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Show Notes
As the story goes, in 1906, the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair. Over 800 people entered that contest. Galton, being a numbers guy was curious about how the crowd faired with its guesses. What he discovered was that the average guess, 1,197lb, was extremely close to the actual weight of the ox at 1,198lb. No one person had made a guess as good as that of the combined wisdom of the crowd.
Since then, there have been lots of examples of this kind of crowd intelligence and it has become a science unto itself. Meanwhile, another kind of intelligence has become sort of a buzz word in the technology space over the last few years: Artificial Intelligence.
So what happens when you take crowd intelligence and combine with artificial intelligence and blockchain? The answer is a project called Cindicator.
Cindicator has applications in just about everything you can think of predicting. Sound interesting? If so, you will not want to miss this week's episode of Consensus Network.