hive-mind

hive mind

noun

1. a notional entity consisting of a large number of people who share their knowledge or opinions with one another, regarded as producing either uncritical conformity or collective intelligence.

   "he has become one of those celebrities whose online presence has made him a favourite of the Internet hive mind"

   • (in science fiction) a unified consciousness or intelligence formed by a number of alien individuals, the resulting consciousness typically exerting control over its constituent members.

     "there is a Borg Queen who controls the hive mind"

A hive mind or group mind may refer to a number of uses or concepts, ranging from positive to neutral and pejorative. Examples include:

• Collective consciousness or collective intelligence, concepts in sociology and philosophy
• Culture A collective of knowledge, art, artifacts, symbols and social ritual
• The apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects such as ants, bees and termites
• Swarm intelligence, the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial
• Universal mind, a type of universal higher consciousness or source of being in some esoteric beliefs
• Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness
• Egregore is a phenomenon in occultism which has been described as group mind.
• Groupthink

MIT Technology Review

How many robots does it take to open a door? If the robots are trying to figure out how to do the task from scratch, then it helps to have as many as possible involved.

Google is building a robotic hive-mind kindergarten

Researchers test ways for robots to perform complex tasks by downloading what others have learned.

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