UNU Football Week 5: 16% ROI
Week 5 was a strong week for UNU Football. The UNU Football Swarm met last Thursday to make its Week 5 Picks, which were recorded here on the blog, HERE. Only 14 games were played in Week 5 of the NFL,…
Baseball Swarm Nails Final 8 Playoff Teams for the Boston Globe
On August 3, the Boston Globe assembled a group of baseball fans who used UNU to predict the eventual participants in the Major League Playoffs. This challenge was issued in the same spirit as Tech Republic's Kentucky Derby challenge, and readers of this…
UNU Football Week 5
Check out UNU's Week 4 Results HERE. The results below are sorted by predicted Confidence and then by Brainpower. As always, I would encourage you to watch each games replay for a better understanding of how the Swarm arrived at its prediction. For example, lower…
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…