swarm intelligence
Britishnoun
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the collective behaviour of a group of animals, esp social insects such as ants, bees, and termites, that are each following very basic rules
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an artificial-intelligence approach to problem solving using algorithms based on the self-organized collective behaviour of social insects
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That research earned the engineers a patent in April 2024—one of hundreds granted in recent years to Chinese defense companies and universities affiliated with the military for advances in swarm intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
Since the start of 2022, Chinese defense contractors, military institutes and military-linked universities have published at least 930 patent filings related to swarm intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
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 • Dec. 1, 2023
Indeed, synthetic swarm intelligence is already with us.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
The zombies in #wwz exhibit swarm intelligence because that is what natural selection would do. #outreach @carlzimmer http://t.co/lU7OhAaEFz Fungi aren’t the only zombie voodoo masters.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2013
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