In our special “PRIDE” edition, with Pietro Michelucci, from the Human Computation Institute, we dive into diversity that goes beyond just a bunch of 1s and 0s, taking a quantum leap into the heart of the matter: how to keep humans and our biosphere in the loop when driving disruptive innovation and technology. And how citizen science supports that.
Join us as we discuss how inclusion supports better computation and how valuing different inputs and perspectives increases accuracy. We also cover the topics of the crowd, collective intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning, self-organisation, simulations, and the golden tool that Pietro leaves us all with - that “creating moments” is what builds a better community.
Pietro has a joint-PhD from Indiana University in cognitive science and mathematical psychology.
He is interested in understanding how the complementary abilities of humans and machines could be used to build collective thinking systems that have futuristic AI capabilities today – an emerging field called “human computation”. Toward this end, he has studied Organismic Computing and Massively Distributed Problem Solving. More recently he is investigating complexity science as a way to make problem solving systems behave more predictably and effectively in the real world.
He currently leads the Stall Catchers project, an online game that accelerates Alzheimer’s disease research and CrowdMeter, a technosocial intervention for COVID-19, as well as a new data science initiative called Civium.
Learn more about Pietro: https://about.me/pmichelu
And his Organisation: https://humancomputation.org/
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