The Agent Swarm as cybernetic organism?

The latest trend in Backprop network users is the idea of "agent swarms", with some being so sophisticated as to replicate an entire firm in miniature (gas city, wuphf, et al). The basic idea is that you can drive out errors by making the agents take on different roles, much like in the firm, so that they can form adversarial networks. Similarly different weights and starting seeds among the…