UNU Football Week 4: Even Steven
Last week, the UNU Football met on Thursday ( as we do every week ) to take a stab at predicting the outcomes of all 15 NFL games. Of course, when you're harnessing a weapon as power as Swarm Intelligence,…
Could Swarm Intelligence be used to teach A.I.?
Unanimous AI founder and CEO Dr. Louis Rosenberg was recently interviewed by the Tech Emergence podcast. The wide-ranging interview is a fascinating listen for anyone interested in the future of Intelligence. You can listen to the podcast below, or…
UNU Baseball: Tread Carefully when Picking Wildcard Games
Anyone who knows anything about baseball can tell you that no one knows anything about who is going to win the MLB Wildcard games. Tonight we have the big-hitting Baltimore Orioles visiting the equally homer-happy Toronto Blue Jays, in a…
Group Smarts: How UNU and Collective Intelligence Overcome Groupthink
An excellent new essay in Aeon by science writer Jane C Hu details how Collective Intelligence helps us to overcome the problems of group think. Hu writers convincingly about the Good Judgment Project as well as NASA's Clickworkers, but spends…
Swarming the World’s Largest Telescope
China recently announced the completion of the world's largest radio telescope. The $180M telescope's stated goal is to "search for gravitational waves, detect radio emissions from stars and galaxies and listen for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life." And since no…
How will the first Presidential debate affect the election?
Much has been written about Monday's presidential debate. Experience shows us that full impact of the debate takes days to assess, and in that time pundits across the country weighed in on everything from the friendliness of Trump and Clinton's handshake to the…
UNU Football Week 4 Picks
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? Thanks to everyone who has participated in the UNU Football Swarms so far! Week 3 was a crazy one in the NFL, and the Swarm weathered the storm, posting a 7-8-1 record. Some highly paid…
Ask UNU Anything about the Presidential Debate
Now that the dust has settled on the first Presidential debate, we have a much clearer picture of Monday's winners and losers. Every fact has been checked, every sigh analyzed, and every opinion has been formed. But, while most people…
UNU Baseball Picks for 9/28
Below you will find the UNU Baseball Swarm’s Picks for September 28th. As always, the results are sorted by predicted competitiveness and then by Brainpower, although I would encourage you to watch each games replay for insight into how the Swarm arrived at…
Who will win the first Presidential Debate? We asked UNU…
Let's be honest for a second. No one knows what's going to happen on Monday night when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off in the first Presidential debate at Hofstra. Even with a seemingly endless election cycle, when we're drowning…