Artificial intelligence turns 20 into 11,000 in Kentucky Derby bet

An artificial intelligence platform that has previously predicted the winners of the Oscars and the Super Bowl has now won the "holy grail" of gambling: the Kentucky Derby Superfecta. The human-based artificial intelligence--called UNU--predicted the first, second, third and fourth horses in the Derby at 540-1 odds, earning the technology's inventor Louis Rosenberg 10,842 from a 20 dollar bet. "When I saw the horses cross the line, I knew I was witnessing a milestone in the predictive abilities of AI, as well as a harbinger to future changes in how the world views sports gambling," Rosenberg tells Newsweek. UNU uses a unique form of artificial intelligence called swarm intelligence that aims to amplify rather than replace human intelligence. It works like this: a group of people login to an UNU online forum through their smartphones or computers.