Unanimous A.I.
| Company Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founder(s) | Louis Rosenberg |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Website | http://unanimous.ai/ |
Unanimous A.I. develops Swarm Intelligence technologies and is the creator of the UNU social platform. The platform allows groups to form “human swarms,” and taps into their collective knowledge and intuition, making it possible for these groups to answer questions and make predictions in real-time as a “unified intelligence”.[1] This process has been lead to improved decisions, predictions, estimations, and conclusions, which can be seen in major events such as the 2016 Kentucky Derby.[2][3]
History
Entrepreneur and inventor, Dr. Louis Rosenberg, founded Unanimous A.I. to unite large groups of people online into real-time collaborative systems which amplifies their collective intelligence.[4] He started the company due to being concerned with current artificial intelligence research, which generally focuses on replacing human intelligence with machine-driven software. Dr. Rosenberg believes that these traditional A.I. approaches will prove to be dangerous to society in the long term, and wanted to build intelligent systems that keep humans “in the loop.”[5][6]
UNU
Unanimous A.I. developed a social platform called UNU, which is based on Swarm Intelligence technology that allows groups to think together to answer questions, make predictions, generate ideas, and play games.[7] UNU connects groups of people to leverage their inherent collective intelligence and generate insights together.[8]
2016 Kentucky Derby
Challenged by a reporter with TechRepublic, Hope Reese, Unanimous A.I. used the UNU system to predict the winners of the 2016 Kentucky Derby. UNUs single pick for the top four horses was published by TechRepublic on May 6, 2016.[7] The following day, the race was won and the four horses that UNU picked (Nyquist, Exaggerator, Gun Runner, and Mohaymen) finished in the exact order that the system predicted and that TechRepublic published. The odds for making such a pick were 542 to 1, which would yield $54,000 on a $100 bet.[9] Hope documented her own bet of $1, which earned $540.[10][11][12]
References
- ↑ Cuthbertson, Anthony (February 2, 2016). "Oscar Predictions: AI Calculates Leonardo DiCaprio Will Finally Get His Oscar". Newsweek.
- ↑ Rosenberg, Louis (September 29, 2015). "Human swarming, a real-time method for parallel distributed intelligence". IEEE Xplore.
- ↑ Rosenberg, Louis (July 29, 2015). "Human Swarms, a real-time method for collective intelligence". The MIT Press.
- ↑ Bryant, Martin (February 15, 2016). "Unanimous A.I. treats humans like bees to make better decisions". The Next Web.
- ↑ Freiherr, Greg (December 12, 2015). "How to build a better, safer artificial intelligence". CIO.
- ↑ Rosenberg, Louis (November 22, 2015). "How swarm intelligence could save us from the dangers of AI". Venture Beat.
- 1 2 Reese, Hope (January 22, 2016). "How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts". Tech Republic.
- ↑ Engelking, Carl (March 14, 2016). "Let Swarm Intelligence Optimize Your Tournament Bracket". Discover.
- ↑ Lintner, Jonathan (May 8, 2016). "Kentucky Derby payouts, full order of finish". Courier-Journal.
- ↑ Gunaratana, Shanika (May 10, 2016). "Artificial intelligence:Key to Kentucky Derby betting?". CBS News.
- ↑ Cuthbertson, Anthony (May 10, 2016). "Artificial Intelligence Turns $20 Into $11,000 In Kentucky Derby Bet". Newsweek.
- ↑ Schwartz, Ariel (May 9, 2016). "A 'human swarm' predicted the winners of the Kentucky Derby at 540 to 1 odds". Tech Insider.