collective

The term "synthetic intelligence" is sometimes used to describe "strong artificial intelligence" and sometimes to make the point that "artificial intelligence" as a term is an oxymoron. I'm not going to enter into that debate but want to here appropriate the term to describe a collective form of intelligence where collaborative kinds of wisdom can be aggregated toward some greater insight and even predictability. Synthesizing intelligence--the verbal form--may, like folksonomy, be a process whose product is only visible in retrospect.