This event took place on 31 March 2022.

In September 2020, Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design launched the third round of the Collective Intelligence Grants Programme to fund experiments that could generate actionable insight on how to advance collective intelligence to solve social problems.

This event introduced the teams behind the experiments, and they talked about what they did and what they learned.

• Deep Time: the search for the past through human and machine learning

DigVentures and ArchAI tested a new collective intelligence approach to identify previously unknown archaeological and historic features on mapping data of a place.

• Emission Calculator for Recipes (ECare)

The University of Manchester and E.Mission tested whether a natural language processing model trained by a crowd can be used to calculate the carbon footprint of online recipes and suggest lower carbon substitutes, and whether this can lead to lower carbon cooking.

• A human-AI approach to assess readability and trustworthiness of charts

King’s College London and Google (NY) explored public trust and confidence in an AI-enabled system that rates the trustworthiness and readability of different charts.

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