that's a fairly early example of many of the benefits of artificial intelligence. >> next call for thomas malone comes from kathy in new york. hi, kathy. >> caller: hi. how are you? i watch your show all the time. >> we appreciate that. thanks for watching. what's your question for dr. malone? >> i wanted to ask dr. malone if hyperconnectivity could be related to emergent behavior in groups of lower order life forms? in other words, like how colonies, like birds and ants and schools of fish, would he consider that a form of hyperconductivity? >> thank you, ma'am. >> so i think the example you bring up is a very interesting one. i would absolutely consider collections of animals as in many cases examples of collective intelligence or i'd call them superminds. birds flocking together, ant colonies, beehives, etc., those are all examples of what i think is very interesting cases of collective intelligence. i wouldn't usually -- in most cases i would not consider them examples of hyperconnectivity because they still communicate with each other only at a fairly local level. so one ant can communicate

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we're pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor thomas malone of mit. here's his most recent book. it is called "superminds, the surprising power of people and computers thinking together". before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit? >> i'm a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. pleasure to be here. >> what kind of management training do you give at mit? >> i teach two main courses. one is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations, including innovative new things like wikipedia, for instance. and the other is a leadership work w

then thomas malone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses the work there on ai. and later columbia university psychiatry professor kelly harding explores a link between mental and physical health. >> all right. good evening everyone. thank you for supporting your local independent and employee owned bookstore. before we begin, c-span is filming this. make sure the phones are on

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