Collective behavioral intelligence refers to the wisdom that emerges from aggregating multiple cognitive elements or units capable of perception, analysis, and action. Also known as crowd wisdom, collective behavioral intelligence can enhance organizational processes like coordination, collaboration, research and development, innovation, resource management, accounting, finance, and production. The nature of collective intelligence depends on the desired output and power distribution within an organization. Technically, collective behavioral intelligence arises through cybernetic interactions that enable functional group performance. Swarm intelligence, a multidisciplinary field, studies group behavioral intelligence by examining swarm behavior in natural systems. It represents the only discipline that can improve narrow artificial intelligence toward artificial general intelligence. Natural swarm systems exhibit decentralized decision-making and indirectly coordinated behaviors. Artificial systems demanding distributed intelligence and decision-making can mimic these properties to achieve sophisticated technological capabilities. The following chapters discuss principles of swarm behavior and swarm intelligence that can be applied to develop artificially intelligent systems with sophisticated collective capabilities.
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