Explain in detail what swarm intelligence is.

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Swarm intelligence draws its inspiration from nature, modeling the behavior of, for example, a colony of ants. Each ant is an unsophisticated creature with limited capabilities, yet acting as a collective, an ant colony can accomplish remarkable tasks. Ants can find the shortest route from a nest to a food source, carry large items, emigrate as a colony from one location to another, and form bridges. An ant "communicates" with other ants by laying down a scent trail, called a pheromone trail; other ants follow this trail and reinforce its strength by laying down their own pheromones. Given a choice, ants have a higher probability of following the strongest pheromone trail. Hence, the ant that took the shortest path to food and returned to tell about it lays down a trail that other ants follow and reinforce faster than the trail laid down by the ant that took a longer path. Because pheromone trails evaporate quickly, the collective intelligence of the colony is constantly updated to respond to current conditions of its environment.

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