Council Post: The Collective Power Of Swarm Intelligence In AI And Robotics

Swarm intelligence is a natural step in the evolution of certain social species. It explains why ants colonize, bees swarm, fish school and birds flock. Nature has proven that when individual creatures collaboratively work and think together as unified systems toward a common goal, they're more likely to reach that goal faster and more accurately than if they were to attempt it individually. In other words, they're smarter together than they are on their own. Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems (natural or artificial) that can maneuver quickly in a coordinated fashion. In nature, this closed-loop, collaborative behavior is unique within each species.