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What Would You Ask the World’s First Female AI?

October 17, 2016
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What would you ask the world's first female AI? Submit questions HERE. SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 17, 2016) - Siri. Alexa. Cortana. Nearly every Artificial Intelligence in the marketplace is given a woman's name and voice to match. Ava,…

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The Swarm’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

October 14, 2016
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Look, we know zombies are coming. That truth's been universally acknowledged. What we don't know is when. And so the key to surviving the inevitable boils down to one thing: prep, prep, prep. But don't make the mistake of trying to prepare for the zombie apocalypse…

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Two Swarms Predict Nationals Will Take Game 5

October 13, 2016
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Today, two separate Swarms predicted that Max Scherzer and the Nationals would win Game 5. The first prediction took place during the UNU Football Swarm, meaning that a bunch of football experts and enthusiasts weighed in. Here's a look at what…

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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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Could Swarm Intelligence be used to teach A.I.?

October 5, 2016
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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…

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UNU Baseball: Tread Carefully when Picking Wildcard Games

October 4, 2016
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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…

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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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Swarming the World’s Largest Telescope

October 3, 2016
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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…

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UNU Baseball Picks for 9/28

September 28, 2016
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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…

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UNU Baseball Picks for 9/23

September 23, 2016
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Below you will find the UNU Baseball Swarm’s Picks for September 23rd. We had a fun, but small Swarm last night. While most of you were watching the Pats game, some of our smartest pickers were in the Swarm. As…

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