swarm intelligence

British  

noun

1. the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules

2. an artificial-intelligence approach to problem solving using algorithms based on the self-organized collective behaviour of social insects

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Example Sentences

"This self-organisation can be described as 'swarm intelligence'. It is a systematic adaptation to a lack of resources in arid regions," say Getzin and his colleague Dr Hezi Yizhaq.

From Science Daily

Online activism also risks stripping agency from the communities it means to help while "Western advocates and the swarm intelligence of online users dominate the narrative".

From BBC

Iain Couzin is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at the University of Konstanz in Germany who studies swarm intelligence — how fish come together to form a school or birds soar and dive in unison in murmurations.

From New York Times

The experience has taught me the power of swarm intelligence.

From Nature

This “swarm intelligence” can happen within or across species, Wikelski says.

From Scientific American