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Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Humans

August 8, 2018
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Using AI to Make People Smarter With advances in artificial intelligence impacting every industry from healthcare to retail, it’s no wonder people are scared. After all, these pesky machines can already perform a great many tasks better than us humans…

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Voices in AI: A Conversation with Dr. Rosenberg about Swarm Intelligence

August 2, 2018
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"If you have enough organisms and they are connected in a rich enough system, they will be able to behave as a unified entity, they’ll behave as a single-thinking machine." -- Dr. Louis Rosenberg on the Voices in AI podcast The…

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Republican, Democrats and Bees Agree: Diverse Groups Make Better Decisions

July 14, 2017
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Last night George W. Bush and Bill Clinton addressed the graduating class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program together in Bush's presidential library. The amiable conversation between the former Republic and Democratic presidents seemed to be a different era entirely than…

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AI Forecasts the UK Snap Election

June 7, 2017
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UNANIMOUS AI PREDICTS HISTORIC BRITISH ELECTION The political landscape in Britain has certainly shifted since newly christened Prime Minister Theresa May reversed her earlier statement and called for a special "snap" election on Thursday. May intended to use the election to consolidate…

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Unanimous A.I. Predicts the French Presidential Election

May 4, 2017
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AI Predicts Macron Will Defeat Le Pen by 15% On Sunday, all of Europe will be watching French voters take to the polls to elect their new president. The mandatory May 7th runoff pits the two highest finishers in the…

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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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Should Apple be forced to unlock the iPhone?

March 4, 2016
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The FBI's demand that Apple unlock the iPhone belonging to the San Bernandino shooters has split the nation. On one hand, the families of the victims have joined the FBI in requesting that the technology giant provide access, for it could reveal potentially valuable information.…

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A Swarm Intelligence Predicted the Rise of Donald Trump

December 15, 2015
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The 2016 Presidential elections is still 11 months away, but the Republican candidates for the nation's highest office have been campaigning tirelessly since the first debate back in August. In that time, a number of candidates have seen their stars rise and…

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