Artificial Intelligence Wins Almost 11,000 On Horse Bets

No doubt, it has its benefits when it comes to great minds doing great things. However, if the birds and the bees are anything to go by, we have a lot to learn from collective thinking – even if it is used to make some cold, hard cash. Using a "hive mind" artificial intelligence platform, a group of individuals managed to predict the outcome of the top four winners of the Kentucky Derby. This 540-to-1 wager ended up winning a tidy 10,822 for the developers. So was it blind luck?