What Does Swarm Intelligence (SI) Mean?
Swarm intelligence is the idea of coordinating massive numbers of individual technology entities to work together. It is a fundamental concept in IT that has been useful and interesting, as well as a bit threatening, throughout the development of modern technological progress.
Techopedia Explains Swarm Intelligence (SI)
One early application of swarm intelligence, at least theoretically, was in the idea of large numbers of nanobots acting together, as popularly chronicled in Michael Crichton’s 2002 novel “Prey.” The idea was that nanobots would “swarm” together as free agents for specific purposes. The threat was that they could get out of control and “infect” the physical environment in ways that their makers never intended.
