New Scientist's found the trouble with swarm intelligence: software bugs. No, not the evolution of hate-filled robot consciousnesses. The interesting part is that that both scenarios represent unexpected emergent properties: perhaps it's the ultimate expression of that old axiom about mistaking stupidity for malice. The bugs here aren't being seen as "stupidity," however, but as an opportunity to generate intelligence via some kind of evolutionary process. "Software bugs are emergent properties," Alan Winfield, a researcher at Bristol University, told NS. "But today we think they're bad and must be fixed. We need to know how to design the kind of emergent 'bugs' that produce swarm intelligence in nature." It's like lead and gold all over again! The trouble with swarm intelligence [New Scientist] See Also:
  
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