When Unanimous AI brings a swarm back during an ongoing event like the NBA playoffs to answer questions it may have already considered, there’s a two-fold purpose. First, swarming subsequent rounds of the NBA playoffs allows the swarm to amend their incorrect predictions so they can predict brackets they missed. Additionally, it allows the swarm – after seeing teams play in the playoffs – to rethink their earlier forecasts and reassess based on this new data.
With the NBA at the conference finals stage with its final four teams, the NBA Swarm earlier today made one of each kind of those revisions. In the East, where they incorrectly predicted the Sixers over the Celtics, the swarm had a chance to revisit the conference finals clash with the Cavaliers. By the narrowest of margins, the group thinks that the surprising Celtics will win a closely-fought series with Lebron and company.
In the Western Conference, basketball fans will get the epic clash many have hoped for since October when Houston takes on the reigning champs, the Golden State Warriors. On two separate occasions last month, the swarm predicted Houston would win this series. But that was before seeing whether Stephen Curry could play, and how his damaged ankle would hold up. After seeing Steph look and Golden State look good in defeating the Pelicans in the previous round, as the replay above shows the NBA swarm changed their hive mind, and now see the Warriors as the team most likely to win this series. The most surprising thing in that replay ends up being just how strongly the swarm’s magnet momentum favors the Warriors side of the hex.
If the NBA swarm is correct in their conference finals predictions, we’ll get a finals matchup of the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors. Everything else being equal – including the soundness of Steph Curry’s porcelain ankle – the group thinks the Warriors will prevail and win their second straight championship.
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