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,…
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…
Swarms vs Polls: Which is Better for Setting Priorities?
Few tasks are more challenging for groups than the setting of priorities. In fact, priority-setting is among the most dreaded tasks for groups of all types, from corporate teams to political parties. And the more diverse the group, the more challenging it is…
Apple iPhone 7 Launch – Swarm Reveals Public to be Apathetic
As any Apple Fanboy worth their salt will tell you, September 7 is a big day for the tech giant. Apple is expected to announce a new iPhone (iPhone 7), a new Apple Watch, and more. The Verge, Mashable, Engadget…
Day Traders tap Collective Wisdom with A.I.
As the old saying goes - many minds are better than one. Now, a new form of A.I. called Artificial Swarm Intelligence is enabling groups of online users to make accurate predictions by working together as real-time swarms. You might have…
Aliens, UFO’s, Interstellar Travel – Are They Real?
Researchers at Unanimous A.I. have used Swarm Intelligence to make predictions about sports, politics, and awards shows like the Oscars, which have been astonishingly accurate. But perhaps even more interesting is some of the speculations the Swarm made that can't be…
How Pessimistic are Americans, really?
Populist support for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in defiance of the "political elite" has revealed a major upheaval in American politics. Similar trends in the United Kingdom has resulted in England leaving the European Union, a stunning outcome that has shaken the whole world. Some believe this political…
UNU Nails Major NHL Awards, Extends Prediction Dominance
Continuing its string of super-accurate NHL postseason predictions, UNU correctly picked 3 of 4 major NHL awards given out last night in Las Vegas to the top individual performers of the 2015-16 season, including League MVP Patrick Kane of the Chicago…
Ask UNU Anything!
Ask Me Anything is one of the Reddit's Top 10 most popular subreddits. On it, a user opens him/herself up to whatever questions the Reddit community wants to ask. Notable AMA subjects have included Louis CK, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Dinklage,…
UNU predicts the Preakness
A few weeks before the Kentucky Derby, TechRepublic reporter Hope Reese issued a challenge to UNU: can you predict the first four horses to cross the line, in order? Known as the "Superfecta," it's notoriously difficult, especially for the Kentucky Derby with…