Unanimous AI Releases Study Revealing That "Swarming" Leads To Optimal Decision Making

BOSTON, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Unanimous AI publishes a study concluding that groups of people are significantly more effective at reaching optimal decisions when thinking together as swarms versus using traditional, individual voting and polling systems. The study, entitled "Artificial Swarms Find Social Optima," compares Swarm AI technology to three common voting methods and determines that traditional voting methods find the Social Optima (or best decision) with a 60% success rate, while groups using Swarm AI reach Social Optima nearly 82% of the time.

"Conducting votes and polls has been the cornerstone of group decision-making for hundreds of years, but it often leads to outcomes that do not represent the collective interests of the population," says Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous AI. "This new research suggests there is a better way to reach effective decisions, and it's rooted in a far deeper history - evolution - which has empowered other social species to form real-time units that come together to make rapid and accurate decisions for their group."

Inspired by the remarkable abilities of schooling fish, flocking birds, and swarming bees to make superior decisions, Unanimous AI has introduced its Swarm AI platform, a technology that enables online users to create teams that converge as "Artificial Swarms" to predict outcomes and make decisions that best represent the group as a whole. Swarm AI technology has made headlines for its predictive intelligence, outperforming experts at the Oscars and winning the 541-1 Kentucky Derby Superfecta. These superior predictions, coupled with the findings from today's study, prove that Swarm AI not only amplifies human intelligence, but also enables groups with differing views to solve their problems more effectively than legacy methods.

This research falls in the field of Social Choice Theory, which studies how groups with conflicting interests can reach decisions that optimize the welfare of the population. In the 18th century, Nicolas de Condorcet observed that even if voters are individually rational, simple majority voting can lead to irrational outcomes. In response, a number of alternate voting methodologies were developed, including ranked voting and pairwise voting, also known as Borda Count and the Condorcet Method.

To determine which method was most effective at finding Social Optima, researchers compared decisions made by groups working as real-time swarms, using Swarm AI technology, with three common voting strategies (Plurality Vote, Condorcet Method, and Borda Count). Across a large set of 100 test questions, specifically designed to illicit conflicting interests within the target population, results demonstrated a significant advantage for swarming and coming together to make one decision over the traditional voting methods, which results in varying decisions and opinions.

"Artificial Swarms Find Social Optima," will be presented by Dr. Louis Rosenberg at the Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA) on June 13th in Boston, MA.

About Unanimous AI
Unanimous AI is a Silicon Valley company that has pioneered Swarm AI® technology, a new form of AI that combines real-time human insights and AI algorithms modeled after natural swarms. Unanimous has generated an impressive track record of predictions, forecasts and insights. The company's technology has outperformed traditional AI systems and human experts in many high-profile challenges.

Unanimous works with corporate clients and leading organizations through its Swarm Insight® business intelligence service. Swarm Insight helps clients amplify the intelligence of consumer groups as well as amplify the intelligence of business teams to help make better decisions.

Swarm AI was recognized among D/SRUPTION's 5 Biggest AI Advancements of 2017 and among the Top 10 Tech Trends Transforming Humanity by Peter Diamandis. For more about Unanimous A.I., visit http://unanimous.ai

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