Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence as characterized by Tom Atlee, Douglas Engelbart, Cliff Joslyn, Ron Dembo, and other theorists, ...

Collective Intelligence in Social Insects
Biological systems have long been a source of inspiration for AI. The latest paradigm to make the virtual leap comes from social insects - ant colonies and swarms.

Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks.

Ferber, Jacques. 1998. Multi-Agent Systems: Towards a Collective Intelligence. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Lesser, Victor., editor. 1995. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, Agent, Neural network, AI