Swarm intelligence occurs in nature when social creatures such as ants combine their behavior in an integrated way for a collective purpose. Understanding swarm intelligence and replicating it is of increasing interest as we move into a world of AI and clustered robots. Understanding emergent behavior from swarms also furthers concepts of autonomy and organization at every level of intelligence.

Here we have provide a few videos that look at the potential for applying swarm concepts to human thought, as well as to robotics. As usual, the videos here are available on a standard YouTube license.

What is Swarm Intelligence? (UNU videos)

Published on Feb 3, 2016

From Unanimous AI , a company focusing upon human swarms. According to the company website:

Unlike traditional AI, which aims to replicate human intelligence, our Swarm A.I. technologies builds intelligent systems that keep people in the loop, leveraging our natural human knowledge, insights, and intuitions. At Unanimous, we use technology to amplify human intelligence, not replace it.

(The final video in this set is also from Unanimous.)