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UNU Football Week 5: 16% ROI

October 12, 2016
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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,…

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Baseball Swarm Nails Final 8 Playoff Teams for the Boston Globe

October 9, 2016
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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…

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UNU Football Week 5

October 6, 2016
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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…

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UNU Football Week 4: Even Steven

October 5, 2016
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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,…

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Group Smarts: How UNU and Collective Intelligence Overcome Groupthink

October 4, 2016
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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…

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Swarms vs Polls: Which is Better for Setting Priorities?

September 7, 2016
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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…

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Apple iPhone 7 Launch – Swarm Reveals Public to be Apathetic

September 2, 2016
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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…

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Day Traders tap Collective Wisdom with A.I.

July 7, 2016
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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…

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Aliens, UFO’s, Interstellar Travel – Are They Real?

July 3, 2016
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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…

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