Task 9 The hive mind

Question 1

Swarm intelligence

Answer 1

Collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or atificial

1. Flexibility
2. Robustness (link to fault tolerance)
3. Self-organized
4. Decentralized

Question 2

Collective intelligence

Answer 2

Shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making

Question 3

Social cognition

Answer 3

mechanisms by which animals acquire, process, store and act on info from other individuals

Question 4

When can collective outperform an expert?

Answer 4

Result:

• In single-shot decisions, experts are almost always more accurate than the collective
• For repeated decisions the aggregated information of the collective is almost always superior