Unanimous AI is an American technology company that amplifies the intelligence of human groups using AI algorithms modeled after swarms in nature. Inspired by the intelligence amplification effects that occur within flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of bees, Unanimous enables people to achieve similar benefits by forming "artificial swarms" online. Known as Artificial Swarm Intelligence, the core technology enables groups to efficiently combine their knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions into an emergent intelligence that is sometimes referred to as a "hive mind." Unanimous has deployed swarm-based technologies through a cloud-based server Swarm.ai, which enables online groups to answer questions, reach decisions, and make predictions by thinking together as a unified intelligence. This process has been shown to produce significantly improved decisions, predictions, estimations, and forecasts, as demonstrated when predicting major events such as the Kentucky Derby, the Oscars, the Stanley Cup, Presidential Elections, and the World Series. Unanimous is also the provider of Swarm Insight and Swarm IQ, two on-demand intelligence services using their SaaS platform called Swarm. In 2018, Swarm AI technology from Unanimous won the Best AI and Machine Learning Technology Award at the South by Southwest Innovation Awards, as well as winning the overall Best in Show Award for technology at SXSW 2018. In 2018, Unanimous AI also made headlines with Stanford University School of Medicine by amplifying the intelligence of medical doctors using the Swarm platform, enabling significantly more accurate diagnoses than traditional methods or deep learning. In 2019, the Swarm platform from Unanimous AI was featured on the Amazon Original Series, Giant Beast That is The Global Economy, starring Kal Penn and showcasing inventor Louis Rosenberg. In the episode, Amazon producers brought in a group of random people from the general public and had them use Swarm to forecast box-office results for summer movies. As shown in the episode, the group of people, connected together into a "hive mind" using the Swarm software, correctly forecasted that Incredibles 2 was going to significantly outperform other highly anticipated films at the box-office, including and.
History
Unanimous AI was founded by entrepreneur and inventor, Louis Rosenberg, as a means of building intelligent systems that keep human values, morals, wisdom, and sensibilities deeply embedded in the process. By keeping people "in the loop", swarm-based systems may prove safer in the long term than traditional approaches to AI
swarm.ai
Unanimous AI has deployed a "human swarming" platform known as "swarm.ai" that allows distributed groups of users to login from anywhere in the world and think together as real-time closed-loop systems to answer questions, make predictions, generate ideas, and reach decisions.
Challenged by a reporter with TechRepublic, Hope Reese, Unanimous AI used their Swarm AI system to predict the winners of the 2016 Kentucky Derby. The Swarm's single pick for the top four horses was published by TechRepublic on May 6, 2016. The following day, the race was won and the four horses that had been picked 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. Hope documented her own bet of $1, which earned $540.
Medical Applications
In 2018, Unanimous AI, in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University Medical School, conducted a series of trials wherein small groups of radiologists were connected together into "hive minds" using Swarm software. As reported in IEEE Spectrum, and published at Society for Medical Imaging Informatics in Medicine ’s Machine Intelligence conference, results showed that when thinking together in swarms, diagnostic errors were reduced by over 30%.
